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Writing Ideas

List

  1. Meta becomes more important.
  2. Python's EOL.
  3. Document as IOC.
  4. Miscommunication in writing.
  5. Finishing things.
    • That email
    • That hobby project
    • That task before going home
    • That conversation
  6. Investors, destroyers, and culture.
  7. Hitting the wall on aglos, and weird land of conditionals getting the tests to pass.
  8. Five Questions
    • What are we optimizing for?
    • What problem are we trying to solve?
    • How am I spending our money?
    • What value do I bring everyday?
    • What sparks joy?
  9. Plastic modeling as a hobby - full process
  10. 101 Things Engineering Managers will Experience
    • Dealing with toxic environments
    • Persons agency
    • Promotion prep
    • Inequity problems
    • Retaining talent when others promote their position
    • Visa, H1B sponsorship pressures
    • Signing attestation papers
    • Transitions
    • Confiding with other people to find support
    • Consolidate and resolve almost everything
    • Give feedback when it wasn't agreed
    • Signing important immigration papers
    • Succession plans
    • Private agreements
    • Delivering bad news
    • Giving up on a direct when knowing information
    • Knowing information before others do
    • Janitorial services
    • People fire themselves
    • Deportation of engineers
  11. What is a Product Designer Anyway?
  12. Writing a short post of doing nothing all day.
  13. A short post on all my career rejections
    • Enforce the learnings of growth
  14. A short story of emoji 👀
    • Increase size on each iteration
    • Eyes facing eyes
  15. The house that app development bought
    • Reflections on building mobile apps 2011-2017
    • Start with Joe's place
    • Chromecast
    • Google I/Os / WWDC
    • The story about Nick
    • Side hustles
    • Leading all the apps
    • Laid off
    • End it with the conversation of wanting to lead mobile again, and turning it down
  16. What is an Engineering Director Anyway?
    • Manager of managers
  17. Short Gif's as an emotional hook
    • Subtle
    • Emotional
    • Old website that had curtains flowing?
    • Short Gifs redux, "Ode to my family"
      • Sharing family video gifs, as proof of subtle emotion
  18. Combating Burnout
    • D supplments
    • Walks
    • Service
    • Space
    • Hobbies
    • Therapy
    • Use this graphic as the intro.
  19. Paternity Leave - a short on its celebration
    1. Hard parts of the night time bottles
    2. The neogitation of the night time shifts
    3. The bonding after the bottle
    4. The delegation and for others to grow in the absence
    5. The checking in on doing things
    6. The tracking of the eyes
    7. The "first" smile
    8. The company that doesn't resist taking it.
    9. The company that gives the time.
    10. Authored to the baby?
    11. The craziness of getting the kids ready with the new baby
    12. The paraphernalia of it all
    13. Carly Simon's coming around again
    14. Combing of the hair and reading books as the feedings happen
    15. Feeling comfort in embrace
    16. No such thing as solispism
  20. A short on a writing to explain the feeling of being stuck in stalkyard/crossfire?
  21. A write about writing your last write up
    1. Set to a timer to publish later
  22. When I leave, all that's left are my public writings
  23. Turn down the blinds, shut off the apps
    1. Writing is capturing a feeling, the magic
    2. Bluey: sleepytime
    3. When thing are selected to sunset
    4. letting go of the bunny
    5. everyone once and a while things come around that are beautiful
    6. searching meaning
  24. I do laundry during system demos
    1. Showering has thinking benefits
    2. washer machine break out
      1. Washing is still all manual
      2. is there such a system to lift from one to another?
        1. The dual machine
      3. Quality of the wash
        1. Visual
        2. Smell
        3. Pilling
      4. Some theory that until its automated, we will be stuck with manual
  25. The answer will come in time
    1. team-service slow downs, and then magic happened
  26. Catching the end of a sunset
    1. Diddy on shutting down the last proxies
    2. odd things happen with good intentions
    3. optionality: many ways to solve a problem
    4. doing nothing, letting it come back
    5. tossing over the remaining piece to the owner
    6. Sometimes letting the machine work
    7. Accidental forcing function?
  27. Making memories or making content?
    1. Thought about making in a time of having young kids
    2. At adventureland
  28. The Great Technological Stagnation: 2022 edition
    1. Is this the best we are going to get?
    2. Things are going backward
    3. No technological advances for 15 years
    4. Driverless cars, and charging
    5. VR/AR has failed
    6. Git and kubernetes forever
    7. If we ever get to mars
  29. Some small "historical" write up that goes deep but at the same time enlightening
    1. Example is The History of 'Ampersand'
    2. The times sqaure zipper?
  30. A spin on when an engineer leaves the team
    1. Joins the team, how do they assimilate
    2. Setting boundaries, getting some wins
    3. Smoothing expectations and getting work in
    4. Steam rolling dogma
  31. When an Engineer Returns to the Office
    1. Exception process
    2. End with "Until we see ourselves on webex during the next Pandemic"
    3. Capitalism maybe not fair
    4. Us vs them
    5. Find more ways to WFH
    6. No way to save my local community
  32. A write up of taking care of three kids
    1. How going from place to place, and being on time is killer
  33. A write up about The Right to be Remembered
    1. Product idea conclusion?
  34. A write up about the immigration actions
  35. "That one project" - noggin.
  36. When the boiler service comes
    1. Just do enough
    2. Enough to get it done, but may be a time liability later
    3. Gaskets, cleaning, replacing parts

Updates

  1. What is a Technical Lead Anyway?
    1. Maker and Multipler
  2. The Zen of Motorcycling and Programming
    1. "Grip it and rip it"
    2. "Knees in the breeze"
    3. "Loud mouths save lives"
  3. What is an Engineering Manager Anyway?
    1. Managers enable pockets of time
    2. Managers find people where they are and leave them better
    3. Scaling myself by finidng opportunities for others
    4. Continious and eventual reconciliation of things
    5. Managers extract value, leaders scale effort
    6. More idling time, essenital to adjacent, and that's okay
    7. Are information brokers
  4. What is a Software Engineer Anyway?
    1. More valuable than just their code
  5. Building a Popular Half-Life Mod
    1. Quote: "I was in a perpetual state of a creative high. Everyday I plotted my next tweak. When I hit a wall, I'd untangle a narly problem. This happened in my head as life went on around me."
  6. Be a Rockstar at Pull Requests
    1. Watch combative language like just
    2. More prose, and less crispness
    3. Reviews are about value, not about averting disaster (it's happens regardless)
    4. Owning the pull request nudges
  7. In Software, When an Engineer Leaves the Team
    1. Include reasons for leaving: Money.
    2. Update comma: "and it’s a pivot for, now, this new team"
  8. On Names: A Brief Encounter with Guido van Rossum
    1. Key adjacency is continual comedy relating to my name.
  9. Deception: Degenerate A/B Testing
    1. Green checkmarks next to failed or blocked transactions. - Danny Preussler
    2. Removal of scrubber bars, locked experience forced to watch the full video
    3. Use the app for free, but sign up with PII
  10. Apps doing sh*t
    1. Flower recommendations for a breakup
    2. Home address misplaced
    3. Assistant jumping in on conversation when it should not
    4. Apple maps directing us to a renaissance faire, but officals blocked road. 1.5+ more hours.
    5. Recovery of browser tab, with sensitive info of direct, of a teammate
    6. AI takes meeting minutes, continues after meeting ends, secrets discussed. Then everyone gets the notes.
  11. How to Place on the Front Page of Hacker News
    1. Add "Angle of Attack" on how to write something
    2. Appeal to readers by telling them how something complicated works
  12. The First Hot Wheels Sto & Go
    1. Picture of the Sto & Go coloring book
    2. Gene's idea disclosure
    3. Fourth level for the plant shop
    4. Credit via Bryan Benedict - 2015 Rob Matthes, and Paul Schmid did a little on that one as well. Paul says they did a new tool and redesign, and then Paul did a recolor in 2021 for Target Flying colors. Gabe Lopez did the recolor for 2022 Ultra Hots.
    5. Encylopedia World Book prop up on missing legs
  13. Cancel This App Update, Dammit!
    1. System update on phone occurs during morning, cancels wake up alarm

What is a _____ Anyway?

  1. Goals - more than a job description, it has an edge, an opinion.
    1. Targets
      1. 3 minute read
      2. Make it memorable
      3. Make it wanted to be shared
      4. Make it timeless
      5. Focus on aspirational, the drama, and people,
    2. Format
      1. Quick intro on working with <title>
      2. The top belief(s) (~1-2 beliefs, say it boldly. Then 2-3 sentences on detail)
      3. State numerous sub beliefs (~8-9 beliefs)
      4. Bolden beliefs tell a story if read in sequence
      5. The final twist, leave them violently agreeing, disagreeing, or questioning

Do Great at _____.

  1. Goals - focus on a rythym and pipeline of getting things done