Hacking the Wetware 2 - Antipatterns (Burn Out & The Ego Trap)
Of Burn Out And Boiled Frogs
I can’t speak for everyone, but as for my own experience, burn out can be tough to self diagnose because it happens slowly, by degrees.
Work
Hacking the Wetware
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.
iOS 11 Makes the iPad Pro Sing!
A while ago I wrote a post about the then new Apple iPad Pro with its awesome keyboard.
I gushed about it already in that post, and that aspect hasn’t changed, but I’ve gotta say, Apple’s new version of IOS really catapults this device into new planes of usefulness.
The One Feature that Keeps Me Addicted to Chrome
I’ve been using Chrome for the last few years, and generally speaking I’m pretty happy with it.
However recently Google has made some decisions (notably the on by default voice search features) that make me question the wisdom of that choice.
The Joy of DevOps (Or, Return of the Living Generalist!)
One of the things I have always enjoyed about what I do is that I have, from pretty much day 1 in the technology industry, worn many hats.
No matter what my job title said, I have always done pretty much whatever needs doing whether or not it crosses into what others might consider a discipline that’s not in my job description.
Face, meet Mr. Concrete wall.
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.
So, I landed in Chinatown!
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…