Book Review: Atomic Habits – 3*
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear My rating: 3 of 5 stars Great, easy to read refresher on…
Routines and Habits
There are a lot of books in the past few years about creating Habits. I had first understood the value of them from reading Awaken the Giant Within by Tony…
Book Review: The First 90 Days — 3*
The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins My rating: 3 of 5 stars An ok book -…
10 Things I learned while on Sabbatical
Well we’ve been back from our 8-month long sabbatical for a bit more than a month now and a considerable amount of time after returning has been spent reminiscing. A…
Do the impossible: Multitask (part 5 of 5)
Awesome - so now you’ve got your prioritizations, you know your time-slices, and you have your flags and notifications under control right? If you haven't read the previous articles, you…
Do the impossible: Multitask (part 4 of 5)
Welcome to the next function: Notifications, Interrupts, Flags, and Semaphores. If you haven’t already, you may want to read the previous posts: Part 1: Multitasking is a necessity Part 2:…
Do the Impossible: Multitask (Part 3 of 5)
Learning the 2nd function: Time-Slicing Welcome back! The next function in mastering how to Multitask: TimeSlicing. If you haven’t already, you may want to read the previous posts: Part 1: Multitasking…
Do the impossible: Multitask (part 2 of 5)
Starting points to mastering the 4 basic functions of multitasking:Prioritization, TimeBoxing, Notifications and Flags, Scheduling. This is the 2nd of a multi-part post on multitasking?—?if you haven’t already, read Part…
Do the Impossible: Multitask (Part 1 of 5)
Multitasking is a necessity. Learn to be an executing machine. (This article is also on Medium) I’ve always been a proponent of “work hard, play hard”?—?sure, ultimately you have to…
Design Patterns for the Real World
Every engineer, over the years of their career, develops an appreciation for particular design patterns. In general, there are multiple tools that one can pull from for any particular problem,…