Thoughts from an Operations Wrangler; I lead the production engineering team, running one of the largest SaaS observability platforms on the planet. Wavefront started in 2013 (I joined in 2016) and was acquired by VMware in 2017. These thoughts are all mine. Charity Majors posed a question on Twitter that…

Thoughts from an Operations Wrangler; I lead the production engineering team, running one of the largest SaaS observability platforms on the planet. Wavefront started in 2013 (I joined in 2016) and was acquired by VMware in 2017. These thoughts are all mine. I find myself more and more talking with…

I have some pretty fond memories of my Dad, a math teacher, bringing home one of the (or maybe it was the) Apple II computers from work when I was in first or second grade. That’s how I got introduced to computers (and where I learned how to spell catalog)…

Non-authentic is a virus in anything you do in life. Non-authentic is not benign. It metastasizes like a tumor. ~ @cookfix When I first started people managing, I was given some simple advise: always find one personal thing from each person’s life and remember to ask them about it every…

He stepped out into the cold, glad to be through and glad to be out. The cold winter wind slapped him in the face as if scolding. He hadn’t really bundled up too well — just wanted to leave. He stood there now pulling together his jacket, fastening the zipper…

I never had a lot of friends in high school. Senior year was somehow different. I don’t know why but by graduation I knew and was known by those I considered the “in” crowd. I’m a believer in recognizing those who do good and as I read George Saunder’s convocation…

“People want to be led by someone they know. Someone they trust.” ~ https://popforms.com/death-to-top-down-leadership/ More than five years ago I started managing a team. Five years later I wasn’t so much as managing a team of 60 as I was leading a team of 60. There’s a big difference between…