Category: learning in public

Learning in public - Cost Categories

Today’s #learninginpublic article is about AWS cost categories Cost categories are a powerful tool for organizing and categorizing costs within an organization. They allow for the creation of rules to combine multiple fields from the cost and usage report (CUR) into a new category, also known as synthetic tags or calculated fields. These calculated fields are derived from other CUR fields, providing a way to extract information without the need for manual tagging. Read more...

Learning in public - it is all about people, humans

Today’s #learninginpublic article is about a core concept of my leadership and negotiation style. “It is all about Humans” Every important decision is, in the end, made by a person Ignoring the human part will limit the extent of an impact Humans are emotional (i.e. non-rational) first and foremost. We make the decision emotionally, and then we rationalise to explain why we made the decision. Take time to discover the person. Read more...

Learning in public - biases

Today in learning in public, I want to introduce one of my favourite topics. Avoiding our common biases. Biases are the actions we do without thinking that can have dire consequences! Awareness of our common biases and avoiding them is incredibly powerful and helps us make better decisions. Link to the article Read more...