I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
I consider myself a "product person". Counseling, consulting, and other types of mercenary work are cool short-term, but I'm not going to fool myself. In the end, I want to build (organically) something persistent and lasting that will stand out in comparison with the competition and...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
Goals are not rocket science, right? Just make sure they are SMART [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria], confirm the specific objective value, and get yourself busy, striving to get there before the deadline is due, correct? In fact, many do just that. I find it an equivalent of...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
The year 2021 is almost done, which means that our new closest friend - COVID-19 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19] - has already been with us for more than 2 years. One year ago, our situation was quite different [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/applying-systems-theory-to-understand-the-pandemic/] - we (at least many...
Web3 is a hot topic these days. No, I do not mean Web 3.0 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web] (so-called "The Semantic Web"), but Web3 [https://www.wired.com/story/web3-gavin-wood-interview/] - the (somehow vague) idea of building the next stage of the Internet upon...
Disclaimer: I am an AWS employee, but these are my private opinions. Based on my own perspective on the cloud landscape, competitive context, and what I find most valuable/interesting in the cloud services portfolios. re:Invent 2021 [https://virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/agenda/] is history. But no worries, we&...
Disclaimer: This post will be somewhat "philosophical". Don't expect anything about technology, engineering, leadership, cloud, or even behavioral psychology. What is it about then? My initial thought (when it was still an idea, not yet put on paper) that depicts it quite nicely was "a...
Alt-culture (some call it "anti-culture") is an organization's underground, authentic culture. Different from the officially communicated (internally and externally) one. What are its key characteristics? * it consists of regular/consistent actions, behavioral patterns, values (used in everyday decision making) of the majority of the organization'...
YACT! Not YACHT! Seriously. Y-A-C-T. 2021. COVID-19. Remote first. Asynchronous work. Flexibility > colocation. No, I'm not going to re-visit the status quo (hooray!) - this post is about something different. We've embraced the new model of work, enjoyed its pros, but I haven't...
