Psychology Women in Tech Starts in Infancy - Here's How my Daddy Helped 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....
Psychology The Science Behind Mental Overload and How to Avoid It (the overload, not the science...) 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.
Culture Girls at Devopsdays (see what I did there?) 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
Devops Some Thoughts on Reading "The Phoenix Project" 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.