Category: personal AnGoL

“It wasn’t the best decision we could make,” said one of my old bosses, “but it was the most defensible.”
What she meant was that she wanted to choose option A but ended up choosing option B because it was the defensible default. She realized that if she chose option A and something went wrong, it would be hard to explain because it was outside of normal. On the other hand, if she chose option A and everything went right, she’d get virtually no upside. A good outcome was merely expected, but a bad outcome would have significant consequences for her. The decision she landed on wasn’t the one she would have made if she owned the entire company. Since she didn’t, she wanted to protect her downside. In asymmetrical organizations, defensive decisions like this one protect the person making the decision.

Source: Defensive Decision Making: What IS Best v. What LOOKS Best

And that fact is the thing I can’t quite get past. That a decision I made for a list I put on the internet has impacted a family business and forever altered its future. That I have changed family dynamics and relationships. And it could very easily happen again.

I’ve been asking myself what the other side of this looks like. How do I do this better? Is there a way to celebrate a place without the possibility of destroying it? Or is this just what we are now — a horde with a checklist and a camera phone, intent on self-producing the destruction of anything left that feels real, one Instagram story at a time?

Source: Will Stanich’s Ever Reopen? Why America’s Best Burger Spot Closed Down – Thrillist

And then, in a quieter voice, he started to explain why it wasn’t just two weeks. He asked me not to reveal the details of that story, but I can say that there were personal problems, the type of serious things that can happen with any family, and would’ve happened regardless of how crowded Stanich’s was, and that real life is always more complicated and messier than we want it to be. Stanich explained that, as these issues were going on in the background, it was hard to read the social media screeds attacking them, and listen to the answering machine messages at the restaurant calling him a fat fuck and telling him to fuck himself for closing his own restaurant. He didn’t care about them, he insisted. He only cared about people like that woman who’d shown up, the regulars who live in NE Portland. “I need to take care of the people who took care of me,” he said. “They don’t turn on you.”

This was the same sentiment the chef at Paiche had expressed, and that I’d heard from others. If there was one main negative takeaway from the raging fires of food tourist culture and the lists fanning the flames, it was that the people crowding the restaurant were one time customers. They were there to check off a thing on a list, and put it on Instagram. They weren’t invested in the restaurant’s success, but instead in having a public facing opinion of a well known place. In other words, they had nothing to lose except money and the restaurant had nothing to gain except money, and that made the entire situation feel both precarious and a little gross.

Source: Will Stanich’s Ever Reopen? Why America’s Best Burger Spot Closed Down – Thrillist

With our heavy use of digital media, it could be said that we have taken multitasking to new heights, but we’re not actually multitasking; rather, we are switching rapidly between different activities. Adrenaline and cortisol are designed to support us through bursts of intense activity, but in the long term cortisol can knock out the feel-good hormones serotonin and dopamine in the brain, which help us feel calm and happy, affecting our sleep and heart rate and making us feel jittery.

Source: The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world | Life and style | The Guardian

Many have been crushed. The Berkeley psychologist Christina Maslach has spent years studying the phenomenon of occupational burnout. She focussed on health care early on, drawn by the demanding nature of working with the sick. She defined burnout as a combination of three distinct feelings: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization (a cynical, instrumental attitude toward others), and a sense of personal ineffectiveness. The opposite, a feeling of deep engagement in one’s work, came from a sense of energy, personal involvement, and efficacy. She and her colleagues developed a twenty-two-question survey known as the Maslach Burnout Inventory, which, for nearly four decades, has been used to track the well-being of workers across a vast range of occupations, from prison guards to teachers.

Source: Why Doctors Hate Their Computers | The New Yorker

1. Introduction The SuanShu is a Java math library for numerical analysis, statistics, root finding, linear algebra, optimization, and lots more. One of the things it provides is functionality for both real and complex numbers. There’s an open-source version of the library, as well as a version that requires a license -with different forms of the license: academic, commercial, and contributor. Note that the examples below use the licensed version through the pom.xml. The open-source version is currently n

Source: An Introduction to SuanShu | Baeldung

We’ve certainly seen this pattern with other positions in IT. Just look at how System Administrators have become Site Reliability Engineers (or just simply Developers) with the advent of Puppet and Chef. We are also starting to see database administrators (DBAs) automate their database schema updates and become Data Architects and Data Scientists. They get big fat raises, as well.
But, there’s a catch: if you want a raise, you MUST be a part of the change. Present to management a plan to automate your current tasks and describe the new, exciting, more strategic tasks you will now perform is how you get the raise.
My automation algorithm has not changed since 1997: The first time I asked to perform a task, I just do it; the second time, I automate it. There has never been an end to the amount of work we will be tasked with. It never ends. With Cloud, DevOps, and microservices, we need to be more strategically valuable to our employer. Automation is the key to that.

Source: Automation Replaces Tasks, Not People – DZone DevOps

Regardless of how hard you try, major incidents will occur. How you use major incident data will determine how much of an impact an incident will have on your business, your customers, and your revenue. The last step that should be in your MIM process is arguably the most important: prevention.
However, your organization can affect how often major incidents occur and how impactful they are. All the mitigating actions you take come down to collecting, sharing, and using data effectively.
How you use data has a fundamental impact on five key activities:

1. Recognize and respond.
2. Triage and restore.
3. Resolve.
4. Collect information and review.
5. Prevent.

Regardless of how hard you try, major incidents will occur. How you use major incident data will determine how much of an impact an incident will have on your business, your customers, and your revenue. The last step that should be in your MIM process is arguably the most important: prevention. However, your organization can affect how often major incidents occur and how impactful they are. All the mitigating actions you take come down to collecting, sharing, and using data effectively. How you use data h

Source: Five Ways Data Can Help Prevent Major Incidents – DZone Big Data

How Memories Are Created

There are two types of memories:

1. Memories you make a conscious effort to form.
2. Memories you form unconsciously through experience.

The first type of memory is stored in your hippocampus. It’s what happens when your new neighbor John introduces himself to you and you go: “John, John, John, John, John…” in your head, over and over again, to not forget it.

The second type is stored in your neocortex. When you went to Disneyland with your grandparents for the first time, got ice-cream, it fell on the floor, and the nice lady behind the counter gave you a new scoop, this experience ends up there.

Source: The Complete Guide to Remembering What You Read – Better Humans

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Source: PowerBuilder Legacy Modernization | PB Application | FAQ