I innately think of people as people, and not divide them by gender or race or age or whatever. And I was thinking about why this is, and I realised I have my father to thank for a hell of a lot....…
I don't think it's an overreaction to say that burnout is not an occasional unfortunate event, but rather it is a serious and frequently-occurring occupational hazard amongst knowledge workers in the tech industry and elsewhere.…
Ben Hughes (@benjammingh) of Etsy, visiting from SF to speak on security, tells me he is horrified by the pitifully small number of women at the conference. He says he thought New York was bad 'til he saw London. I saw, maybe, six female persons here, among several hundred male…
Like a whole bunch of people, I expect, I've just finished reading The Phoenix Project, and I thought it was pretty good. Readable and engaging, and full of good ideas. If you haven't read it, the basic premise is that a middle-grade IT ops manager is unwillingly and abruptly catapulted…