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"Staff engineer" is used differently at different companies. Some, I understand, use that as the external-facing title to mask specific job rules as obfuscation against cold-calling recruiters.

Covey's "7 Habits" taught me everything I needed to know.

I use the app Things to throw new items into an Inbox. This takes half a second and doesn't distract me from whatever it is I'm working on at the time.

Later, when I have a free moment, I use the classic time management grid to mentally map every item in the Inbox into one of four categories:

1. Urgent & Important

2. Not Urgent but Important

3. Urgent but Not Important

4. Not Urgent & Not Important

(Visualized as a 2x2 matrix)

This categorization step could be done once a day or once an hour depending on how much incoming work there is.

Based on the outcome of that quick assessment, I move the item into one of the categories 'Things' provides out-of-the-box: Today, Someday, Any time. And I have tags for every project or area of responsibility I have. During this step I usually take a few minutes to fill in some details about the task that I don't want to forget. Sometimes I realize the task is an entire project in itself, so it gets a new tag or Project item in Things.

Every day I start out by scanning my projects and moving items into the Today list. The day is done when I've checked them all off (yeah, right!)

It's all derived, I believe, from the Getting Things Done methodology.

[1] https://www2.usgs.gov/humancapital/documents/TimeManagementG... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

GoPro does develop its mobile apps, camera software and hardware, and cloud offerings. You can get a flavor for what the company is working on here: https://gopro.com/careers/jobs

Anyone thinking about or considering working on these technologies owes it to themselves to read Charles Mann's The Wizard and the Prophet. Whatever you may think of the author's various statements on Peak Oil etc., the book is a worthwhile meditation on two very different approaches to our current crises.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34959327-the-wizard-and-...

I recently heard about Carbon Engineering, a B.C. Canada based firm that is extracting carbon from the atmosphere and making liquid fuel -- they call it "recycled fuel." Apparently it can be used in existing combustion engines. And it is already up and running.

Something on the order of 10,000 of these industrial plants could get us carbon neutral rather quickly.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-company-...

The discussion about how DevOps is an overloaded term is definitely now meaningless, in that it's been discussed ad nauseam.

In the meantime, interesting work continues to be done developing the ideas of DevOps and extending them.

[1] The Site Reliability Workbook, from Google, 2018 https://books.google.com/books?id=fElmDwAAQBAJ

[2] Securing DevOps, Julien Vehent, 2018 https://www.manning.com/books/securing-devops

"Implement continuous delivery (CD) of your software to any cloud, including Azure, AWS, and GCP."

Interesting move!

This site is blocked by openDNS for malware distribution :-/

GATech brought in $68M from their $6,800 CS degree?

"OMS Cybersecurity is Georgia Tech’s third at-scale online degree program. It will follow the same model as the groundbreaking online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program, which launched in 2014 on Udacity with support from AT&T and has enrolled approximately 10,000 students overall for the $6,800 degree."

Surprised there's been hardly any mention of Michael Pollan's new book. He's the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, and most recently How to Change Your Mind -- mostly about the recent advances in the study and therapeutic uses of psychedelics. There's also an accessible chapter or two on the latest neurophysiology findings on the psychedelic or mystical state of consciousness.

The book goes into some detail about a few FDA-approved clinical trials for MDMA and LSD-assisted psychotherapy underway, some approaching Stage 3 -- these are mainly the result of over 15 years of work by MAPS[1] -- if Stage 2 results are anywhere near as successful as the small Stage 1 trials, we're pretty likely to see legal and widespread adoption for the treatment of PTSD, end-of-life anxiety, and/or depression.

[1] http://www.maps.org/

EKS may be appealing for a shop that has AWS expertise, automation, and monitoring set-up already and that doesn't necessarily want to manage a completely different stack for k8s. EKS has some form of integration with IAM, EBS, ALB, Route53, CloudWatch, etc.

As to 'unfinished', this is the usual model for AWS. New services are initially very simple and rich features and integrations are added over time. It's been that way for ten years. ECS didn't even support running multiple container ports per instances when it was released!

When the Tubbs Fire happened north of the SF Bay last year, it cut off the few Internet links to the Eureka area in Northern California. ATM machines were down as a result, as were the phone lines. If you were stuck somewhere without gas, and without cash, you were really out of luck.

This kind of thing can happen at any moment and yet how many people are really prepared?

Thank you for the list! I've read and enjoyed 6 of your top 10, so naturally you've now given me a great reading list for the rest of the year!

Docker?

In his (really great) book Four Fish, Paul Greenberg says that research shows it takes today's modern fleet roughly 36x the effort to catch the same amount of fish that the fleet of 1900 could catch with sail power. So even radar, sonar, and satellite hunting technology can't keep up with the disastrous decline in ocean stocks.

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Fish-Future-Last-Wild/dp/0143119...

Be prepared to read a lot more of this topic in the coming years. With 2 of the main food species (Tuna, Salmon) de facto endangered, we're going to be thinking about our seafood much differently from now on.

>7. "It is my understanding that..."

Tax advisor from Intuit just advised me the other day, "it doesn't matter" if I report a dollar or two of savings interest.

Coinbase may or may not send you a 1099 form.

"Coinbase provides Form 1099-K to certain business customers and GDAX customers that have received at least $20,000 cash for sales of virtual currency related to at least 200 transactions in a calendar year." Coinbase Tax FAQ

Is there anything to the notion that the Trump administration putting a 30% tariff on imported solar panels is an attempt to bolster the coal or other fossil fuel industry?

It would be useful to know your workload or primary services used (EC2, CloudFront, RDS, S3...) in order to point to advice.

My top 3:

- Buy reserved EC2/RDS/Elasticache capacity - this can be done even with no upfront payment, but you save more with up-front payment. This will save you roughly 30-60%. - Use spot instances. - For S3, use Reduced Redundancy storage where appropriate.

A good read on the topic of electricity production and distribution in the age of renewable, distributed sources: https://www.amazon.com/Grid-Fraying-Between-Americans-Energy...

There are at this time 112 comments on this page. I searched for "emotion" and got zero hits, and only one comment mentioned "bonding." A problem with any scientific assessment of the human condition is the narrow focus, and these studies only take into account a few variables out of thousands.

Emotional bonding between mother and child is a huge factor in breastfeeding -- that's common sense that doesn't require scientific validation, although it would be very interesting to see studies from that perspective.

Who's funding this startup?

> The US is HUGE!

India and China beg to differ -- and they will have an even more HUGE impact on big oil in terms of uptake of EVs.

Isn't cancer one of the main risks of radioactive pollution? These deaths/X metrics don't account for disease.

What does significantly radioactive mean? If I am a single individual, a single particle of Cesium or whatever could give me cancer. It's not an averages game when you're talking about real lives.

I'd very much like my next employer to be one that is actively working toward climate solutions, and has a large leverage. Any suggestions?

Obvious choices would be Tesla (any large automaker with a serious electric program), or a political organization with sane and pragmatic environmental goals.

Get a degree in clinical psychology. You'll learn that everyone basically shares the same thoughts of inadequacy, the same kinds of guilt and shame. And that these feelings don't really go away with "success," but they might lessen with conscious attention (therapy, coaching, etc.)

But even better: share your feelings with a group of your peers. You'll find that they can all relate, and that you're not alone. The antidote to shame is (healthy) vulnerability.

> He wants to win the principle to control the access to the beach.

Which is much worse than just wanting the beach, because he's fighting a battle to set a precedent that is directly contrary to the public good.