Sebastian Gebski

Sebastian Gebski

Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.

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The greatest enemy of Continuous Improvement in Tech

I've been thinking about the idea of Continuous Improvement [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continual_improvement_process] a lot recently. By empirical observation, I wanted to learn: * what makes it happen (triggers it) * what impedes / suppresses / prevents it from happening * what's the recipe (proper set of...

Out of Mana - when causative power spring has dried

Being a lucky git, I've grown up (techwise, in terms of professional career) in very good teams, surrounded by decent team mates & coached by awesome leaders. I didn't discover that today, I've already written at least one post about that some day ago....

"Minimize details & maximize understanding"

Two days ago, this has made my day: > Went into a meeting with a fortune 500 C-level team and OH: “the goal here is to minimize details and maximize understanding.” Mmmkay. — Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) August 28, 2015 [https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/637085598147174400] Poor Mitchell. "ESB. It'...

Fat is not dead. Sort of.

JS, JS, JS everywhere JavaScript is the language of the web - we all have heard that many times. It has a variety of potential usages in various (sometimes not obvious) scenarios - even server-side ones - but there was a category of applications I could not imagine JS in...

Backstab like a pro: passive-aggressive behaviour

The soft stuff is the hard stuff, everyone knows that. Looking at IT projects I've seen personally / learned some details from people I trust, majority of ones that have failed, did so due to reasons absolutely not related to technology, but social interactions and communication. If you work...

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