To stay organized I keep a running list of what I've done, meetings attended and work in flight, mostly for me, partly for my manager who lives many many many timezones away. To spice it up and make the doc feel more...paige...I start each week's section with a GIF...
today we are swimming in a sea of AI-generated, SEO-gamified, and/or generally terri-bad filler content to sate the non-stop content machine. Lately I have been leafing through content from years back, even before "my time", like SysAdvent which ran from 2008-2021. Enjoy 25 of my favorite past posts...
*some of these items won't fit in a stocking 🤷 There is no shortage of techie gift guides out there but most are aimed...
Today is a milestone day (at least according to the HR portal) as it is my 1 year work-a-versary with Chronosphere. As this is my ~personal~ blog I don't tend to talk about my workplace so much since I have many many other channels for doing so but wanted to take stock of...
Listening is a skill we're losing in this world of rapid-fire instantaneously gratifying TikToks/Reels/Shorts/Instant Messages/et al. so I read Kate Murphy's latest book to figure out why and how to better listen....
Monitorama has a very special place in my heart. It is where I decided to take my career further down the o11y rabbit hole, where I've cheered on friends speaking onstage, and where I will speak one day! I wanted to take some time to reflect on what has made this conf so special...