In September 2016 I gave a presentation on managerial focus at the Calibrate Conference. In that talk I outlined the responsibilities of a manager and shared the tools I have been developing to decide which responsibilities to focus at any given time. But now, after giving that talk, I realize that there is a major responsibility that I left out. It’s the core of what we do as managers, but it was so easy for me to overlook because the focus is internal. I call it, “digging deep”: owning your successes and knowing that you can overcome whatever challenges come your way.

Texas!

29.9844444-95.3413889

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Your non-linear problem of 90% utilization

https://blog.asmartbear.com/utilization.html

#read

Does it feel like everyone is working very hard, all the time, and yet not accomplishing as much as everyone would like?

Maybe this is why.

Suppose a web server is running at 50% of its full capacity. Browser traffic doesn’t arrive in regular, smooth amounts; it comes in spurts and occasionally large spikes. Because the server is under-utilized, when a spike arrives there are spare resource to deal with the increase. If the spike is sufficiently large, performance will degrade, and if larger still, many of the requests will have to be rejected rather than answered; after all, there’s some limit past which the server cannot do any additional work.

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Things We Learned Creating Technology Career Steps — Medium

https://medium.com/@kevingoldsmith/things-we-learned-creating-technology-career-steps-d895860ae761

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Things We Learned Creating Technology Career Steps — Medium

Things We Learned Creating Technology Career Steps

This is part three of a three-part series on how we created a career path framework for the individual contributors at Spotify. Part one discussed the process we used to formulate the framework. Part two contained version 1.0 of our framework. In this segment, I’ll talk about the lessons we learned rolling out the framework to the technology organization. If you haven’t read the first two parts, I suggest that you read those first before proceeding with this one.

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Checked in at Denver International Airport (DEN).

It’s almost like I live here. DEN:IAH.

39.8529241-104.6736744

Flew DEN:IAH:SJO

Flew ABQ:DEN

Floating! #hotairballoon #balloon

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Checked in at Extended Stay America Albuquerque – Rio Rancho.

Last night in ABQ.

35.2129134-106.6590514

Checked in at Duel Brewing ABQ.

MOAR beer!

35.0848632-106.6544111

#jetpack

Checked in at Thai House Restaurant

Checked in at Thai House Restaurant.

#jetpack meetup with the local @wordpress crew

35.0804737-106.623772

#jetpack

#jetpack meetup with the local @wordpress crew

35.0805111-106.6239609

#jetpack

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Checked in at City of Albuquerque

Checked in at City of Albuquerque.

Serious hotdog business.

35.0840609-106.6509819

Flew DEN:ABQ

Import posts from Jetpack/WordPress.com

https://beau.blog/2017/04/import-posts-from-jetpackwordpress-com/

I’ve just released version 1.8 of both Keyring, and the Keyring Social Importers. This version includes a new service file, and an accompanying importer, which allows you to import content from a Jetpack-powered WordPress site, using the WordPress.com REST API. That means any site hosted on WordPress.com, or any self-hosted site with the Jetpack plugin installed. There are also a few key fixes for the Twitter and LinkedIn services/importers, so it’s a nice update.

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Vegetable Gardening in the Mountains

http://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/yard-garden/vegetable-gardening-in-the-mountains-7-248/

Growing vegetables in Colorado presents challenges, but growing vegetables in the mountains is harder still. This is due to the much shorter growing season, cool nights, wind, critters, and possible watering restrictions. For the purposes of this fact sheet, ‘high elevation’ or ‘mountains’ means anything over 7,500 feet in elevation in Colorado.

Source: Vegetable Gardening in the Mountains – 7.248 – ExtensionExtension

#burritofriday

Checked in at La Abeja

Checked in at La Abeja.

#burritofriday with a12s

39.740067-104.980933

Checked in at Ratio Beerworks

Checked in at Ratio Beerworks.

Spring drinks at Ratio.

Dabbling in Home Automation and The Internet of Things

https://beau.blog/2017/04/dabbling-in-home-automation-and-the-internet-of-things/

Now that I own my own house, and some of the technologies involved are a bit more stable, I’ve gotten into the idea of home automation a bit more. Here’s a quick run down of my current configuration.

At the center of most things, I have a wink hub (first generation). I configure as much as possible through that, since it simplifies interacting with them if they’re all available in one place.

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Got all the cooler season things planted finally. Even though it’s pretty warm already, and forecast for more of the same.

39.7572-104.967

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Serious garden planning business this morning.

Posted on Instagram 4:25 pm, April 9, 2017

Tulip Party #flowers #tulips #garden

39.7321442-104.9607721

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Checked in at Denver Botanic Gardens

Checked in at Denver Botanic Gardens.

Spring research — with erika

39.7317459-104.960289

Spring Plantingpalooza

https://beau.blog/2017/04/spring-plantingpalooza/

Last year, Erika and I planted our first ever vegetable garden. We quickly became obsessed with it, and this year we’ve upgraded from 2 beds with approximately 50 square feet, to a total of 6 beds, with over 285 square feet (more than 5x the growing space)! We’re pretty psyched to see what we can produce this year, and will be trying a bunch of new vegetables, in addition to more of the varieties we liked from last year.

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Checked in at The Denver Central Market.

Lunchin

39.7592821-104.9846435

I Was As Average As Humanly Possible For A Week

https://dose.com/i-was-as-average-as-humanly-possible-for-a-week-d8040c37033

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I Was As Average As Humanly Possible For A Week

My week as a mediocre American.

In 1927, an enterprising magazine writer named William Dutton got an idea: Let’s find the most average man in America and see what he’s like. He scoured the country to find America’s most average town — Fort Madison, Iowa — and then surveyed the people there until he met Roy L. Gray.

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Heavy modifications required, but getting good coverage now. #gardening #irrigation #vegetablegarden

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Checked in at The Home Depot.

More irrigation supplies — with erika

Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers

https://trackchanges.postlight.com/modern-javascript-for-ancient-web-developers-58e7cae050f9

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Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers

Learn JavaScript using… JavaScript. Image via learnyounode.

There’s a certain kind of old-school, backend web developer who, a long time ago, mastered things like Perl or Python or PHP or Java Server Pages, maybe even Rails or Django. This person worked with giant relational databases and built APIs that serve up JSON and even (gasp!) XML.

This person is a backend developer, so for a long time, JavaScript was just a fun little toy that added a bit of frontend trickery that could make things on a web page change color. If JavaScript was being really useful, it would add form validation that helped prevent the wrong information from getting into the database. Eight years ago jQuery blew this person’s mind. JavaScript itself was a language one merely tolerated, but never embraced.

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Ruthless Prioritization – Startup Grind – Medium

https://medium.com/startup-grind/ruthless-prioritization-e4256e3520a9

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Ruthless Prioritization – Startup Grind – Medium

sorting.at

All high functioning teams must prioritize. Not once a month, not once a week — but rigorously, and ruthlessly.

Prioritization means doing the things that are most important first. If you build products, it means doing the things that create the most customer value first.

In my experience, the craft of making prioritization decisions is one of the most difficult skills to impart on teams because of how complex those decisions can become, and while it’s usually a core responsibility of product managers, I’ve found that the best teams are the ones where everyone is maniacally prioritizing towards the same goal, and doing so in a way that’s consistent with each other.

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Five Lessons from Scaling Pinterest – Greylock Perspectives

https://news.greylock.com/five-lessons-from-scaling-pinterest-6a699a889b08

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Five Lessons from Scaling Pinterest – Greylock Perspectives

I was involved with Pinterest from 5 employees through 650. Here’s what I learned.

When you’re scaling quickly, you get a lot right, but you inevitably get some things wrong. The best companies — like Pinterest — are the ones that learn from those mistakes and adjust quickly.

This post is a distillation of the lessons I learned, first as one of the company’s first product managers, and finally leading product for our discovery team — overseeing search, recommendations, our visual search team, and more.

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How to Manage Your Former Peers

https://hbr.org/2012/12/how-to-manage-your-former-peer

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How to Manage Your Former Peers

Becoming the boss is an exciting transition, but it can also be a nerve-wracking one. This is especially true if you are now managing people who used to be your peers. You need to establish your credibility and authority, without acting like the promotion’s gone to your head. How you walk this line will depend on your organization and your leadership style, but here are some general rules to make any transition smoother.

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Speed up your site with a little machine learning – Hacker Noon

https://hackernoon.com/speed-up-your-site-with-a-little-machine-learning-fa9eb7c86dbb

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Speed up your site with a little machine learning – Hacker Noon

I spend roughly 73% of my life thinking about web performance — hitting that sweet 60FPS on slow phones, loading my assets in the perfect order, offline-caching everything I can. Other examples.

But recently I’ve been wondering if my definition of web performance is too narrow. From a user’s perspective, all that jazz is a tiny piece of the performance pie.

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Finally got all of our irrigation in on all the beds. Officially ready for planting #garden #vegetablegarden #spring #irrigation

39.7572-104.967

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Checked in at Burger King.

For some reason, craving this junk.

39.7623054-104.9729185

Productive morning. #garden #yard #mulch

39.7572-104.967

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Checked in at Spangalang Brewery.

Some birthday drinks — with erika

39.7550963-104.9769142

A static business is a healthy business

https://m.signalvnoise.com/a-static-business-is-a-healthy-business-e671d5a9f304

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A static business is a healthy business

Is that the sun? No, it’s our business. Read on…

A static business is a healthy business

Aim for many nondescript dots, not a few obvious ones

Last year I wrote an article suggesting that you shouldn’t let any one (or small group) of customers overpay you.

If you have a small handful of customers paying you significantly more than most of your customers, you’re no longer a product company — you’re actually a consulting company working for those big payers. You’ll do what they say — often at the detriment of your smaller customers — because the big guys pay the big bucks.

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Voice and the uncanny valley of AI

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/2/22/voice-and-the-uncanny-valley-of-ai

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Voice and the uncanny valley of AI

Voice is a Big Deal in tech this year. Amazon has probably sold 10m Echos, you couldn’t move for Alexa partnerships at CES, Google has made its own and, it seems, this is the new platform. There are a couple of different causes for this explosion, and, also, a couple of problems. To begin, the causes.

First, voice is a big deal because voice input now works in a way that it did not until very recently. The advances in machine learning in the past couple of years mean (to simplify hugely) that computers are getting much better at recognizing what people are saying. Technically, there are two different fields here; voice recognition and natural language processing. Voice recognition is the transcribing of audio to text and natural language processing is taking that text and working out what command might be in it. Since 2012, error rates for these tasks have gone from perhaps a third to under 5%. In other words, this works, mostly, when in the past it didn’t. This isn’t perfect yet – with normal use a 5% error rate can be something you run into every day or two, and Twitter is full of people posting examples of voice assistants not understanding at all. But this is continuing to improve – we know how to do this now.

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#burritofriday

#burritofriday

39.7401244-104.963292

#burritofriday

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#burritofriday

Checked in at Vine Street Pub & Brewery.

#burritofriday — with Michael

39.7433781-104.9619788

Checked in at Georgetown Visitor Center.

“How” ages faster than “Why”

https://hackernoon.com/how-ages-faster-than-why-712e25c9eb3b

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“How” ages faster than “Why”

I used to write a lot of Angular back in 2015. But recently, the JS community has largely moved on from Angular 1 to other libraries, and in turn, so have my projects. I always knew in the back of my mind that technology — and the knowledge that goes along with it — becomes outdated, but this was the first time I experienced it for myself. I wondered: what parts of my Angular knowledge are now obsolete? What parts are long-lasting? And most importantly, how can I make sure that I always get better as an engineer in the face of all those fleeting frameworks and libraries?

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What are some of the dark lessons that life showed you?

https://medium.com/the-mission/what-are-some-of-the-dark-lessons-that-life-showed-you-8c20e709c1ca

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What are some of the dark lessons that life showed you?

A question I originally answered on Quora: What are some of the dark lessons that life showed you?

I can picture it right now: my youngest daughter will one day breathe her last breath. She will be buried. And then she will be forgotten.

Or the seas will rise up and claim us all. Or most of the people I know are mentally ill criminals.

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Checked in at Stem Ciders

Checked in at Stem Ciders.

Tasty ciders — with Chelsea, erika

Checked in at Ratio Beerworks.

with Chelsea

Let’s stop calling them ‘soft skills’ – It’s Your Turn

https://itsyourturnblog.com/lets-stop-calling-them-soft-skills-9cc27ec09ecb

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Let’s stop calling them ‘soft skills’ – It’s Your Turn

They might be skills, but they’re not soft

Are you good at your job?

Different, easier question: Was Ty Cobb good at baseball?

Ty Cobb: Competitive Jerk

It’s generally understood that Ty Cobb was a jerk. His teammates didn’t like him very much. But he’s still in the Hall of Fame. That’s because baseball keeps score… of hits, of runs and of catches.

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#immigrants

#immigrants

#immigrants

Posted on Instagram 2:50 pm, March 4, 2017 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b = { positions : { 996 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘39.747694765574’, ‘-104.98420639855’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b.positions ) { gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b.bounds.extend( gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b.positions ) { gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b.map, position : gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b.map.setCenter( gmap_m257573dd0cbab736fdcb1cf89db7b13b.positions[996] ); });

Recent Social Importer Updates

https://beau.blog/2017/03/recent-social-importer-updates/

I’ve been trying to make small improvements to the Keyring Social Importers package (and People & Places) that I maintain, and have made a number of them over the last few weeks. Here are some details of recent updates which you may have missed:

People & Places

Improved the labels being used for each taxonomy, so that you don’t get random mentions of “tags” in the WordPress UI.
Improved the add_place_to_post() method so that you can add multiple Places to a single Post.
Now exposing both the people and places taxonomies via the REST API.

Keyring Social Importers

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Checked in at The Preservery.

39.764171-104.98132

#meetup

Final night #meetup dinner.

39.7638893-104.9813919

#meetup

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Checked in at Shish Kabob Grill.

39.7401559-104.9835545

Checked in at Osaka Ramen.

39.7595548-104.9861225

This researcher programmed bots to fight racism on Twitter. It worked.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/17/this-researcher-programmed-bots-to-fight-racism-on-twitter-it-worked/

#read

This researcher programmed bots to fight racism on Twitter. It worked.

Example of message designed to remind harassers of the humanity of their victims and to reconsider the norms of online behavior. (Screen shot from Twitter by Kevin Munger/TMC)

Despite rising concern among the public, social-media companies have had little success stemming the wave of online harassment. As part of research recently published in the journal Political Behavior, I conducted an experiment on Twitter to find out the best tactics people can use to discourage other users from using harassing language. I found that these sanctioning messages do have an effect, but not in all contexts.

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Key Takeaways from the Gallup State of the American Workplace Study

https://getlighthouse.com/blog/gallup-state-of-the-american-workplace-study/

#read

Key Takeaways from the Gallup State of the American Workplace Study

Last week, Gallup released its State of the American Workplace study (read it here). This is yet another of their comprehensive looks at what really motivates and engages employees.

As we’ve done in the past for Gallup’s State of the American Manager, Deloitte’s Study of Millennials, and others, we’ve pulled out some of the essential takeaways you should know for your teams and companies.

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Checked in at Enterprise 5280.

39.761688-104.979971

Checked in at Schebens Manor.

39.7558119-104.9680914

New Collar Goods

http://www.newcollargoods.com/

We’re a two-person team building modern furniture in Denver, Colorado

Source: New Collar Goods

This was happening a few days ago. Today it’s sunny and gorgeous. #cowx

#cowx

http://dentedreality.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16995142_863580967115146_6529591715857170432_n-1.mp4

This was happening a few days ago. Today it’s sunny and gorgeous. #cowx

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Checked in at Syrup.

Long waits for pancakes — with erika

39.746219-104.960127

Setting up some rain barrels now that it’s no longer illegal in CO

Posted on Instagram 10:38 am, February 25, 2017

Checked in at Denver North High School

Checked in at Denver North High School.

Theater! — with erika

39.7607535-105.0221566

Checked in at Park Burger.

Going to a school play. Need food first. — with erika

39.7621-105.0200477

#burritofriday

Checked in at Burro King.

This place is legit. #burritofriday

39.772723-104.912323

Amazon’s Leadership Principles

https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

#read

Amazon’s Leadership Principles

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Leadership Principles

Our Leadership Principles aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. These Principles work hard, just like we do. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. It’s just one of the things that makes Amazon peculiar.

Customer Obsession

Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.

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