In part one of this series on lessons learned my first year of public speaking, I covered the submission process and getting started. Next up is what to do when a talk is accepted or scheduled. Getting my first “Congratulations your talk was accepted” email is one of the best…

This year I set a goal to do more public speaking at conferences. I’m no stranger to speaking in public, my first career was as a teacher, I’ve worked in sales, and have spoken at numerous corporate and customer conferences. …

It’s hard when you feel like you don’t belong. Towards the end of middle school I was approached by a friend of a friend and asked “Why do you hang out with them? They don’t like you and don’t want to be your friend.” These were people I had been…

Last week I attended and spoke at Velocity and Fluent, sponsored by O’reilly. This was the first year the conferences, focused on distributed systems, performance, and front end development, were co-located. I’ve wanted to speak at Velocity for years and have previously submitted proposals, but sadly had always been rejected…

Have you ever been in a situation where you wonder whether you should say or do something? What are the consequences if I do or don’t? I have a long list of things I should do: I should eat healthier. I should exercise more. I should get seven to eight…

DevOps is many things, and if you ask 10 people what DevOps means you will likely get 20 different answers. The Three Ways of flow, feedback, and continuous experimentation and learning are the principles that drive all values, philosophies, processes and procedures. These principles can be applied to other areas…