2018-02-11
Working for Amazon has been a revelation to me in ways large and small.
One of the biggest by far has been coming to the understanding that career growth was not in fact laying in wait around the next corner if only I could master the latest technology trend. There are baseline skills that can either accelerate or retard your growth in profound ways, and many of them reduce down to changing the way you think in or react to various situations. Let’s walk through a few of them.
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2017-02-19
A couple of years back, frustrated by the challenges of running my own Wordpress site, I decided to give Pelican a try.
It’s what is know as a “static blogging” tool. This means that you treat your blog just like any other code - you write your articles using a text editor, run a command and the article is produced in its final form ready for consumption by web browsers. Maybe run another command, and your article gets uploaded to wherever your blog is actually served.
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2010-06-29
As I mentioned here previously, my last big job search after I got laid off from MIT was decidedly Not Fun…
I ended up taking a job I would normally never take, because I felt utterly backed up against a wall by the economy, increasing competition in the tech sector, and the big skeleton rattling around in my closet - the lack of a degree.
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2009-06-12
It has been forever and a day since I posted here. I apologize for the fade, my 4 or 5 readers must be thinking I’d joined the silent masses of bloggers who can’t overcome the inertia and fail to post ever again…
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