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This is the approach I’m trying to use (with various degree of success), this is what a leader should do, this is why it is hard to implement and most of the time not understood. A lesson of leadership from the Nuclear submarine Captain that got the highest score by the Navy while delegating efficiently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYKH2uSax8U 9 minutes worth your time as 1.7m can confirm Read more...
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After reading book over book of work related stuff, while on my last holiday, I rediscovered reading fiction for pleasure and ended up reading about zombies until late. Try it :) Read more...
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Instead of creating a slide deck to show how it feels to work with you, do real work, useful to the audience. When asked for a presentation, provide work-done. Read more...
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Before the cloud, there were many bugs in custom-built software that could be have been solved with more memory or more CPU. But as getting more memory and CPU was incredibly expensive (buy new servers, receive them, rack them, connect them, install all the stuff in them) it was rarely a real solution. Devs had to find a solution to the constraint. Now we have the other way around, adding memory or CPU is a few clicks away, so solving a software issue by adding more CPU/RAM is easy. Read more...
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I was late to start the blog again, while Lucas was still on holiday. Until I remembered a say “When you are late, don’t rush, in any case you will be late”. Read more...
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Taking a week off work and blog. See you soon. à bientôt Read more...
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Better paying for education and hope for the best after university (if they go) or better free school and set money aside to allow, for example, to be a serial entrepreneur at 20, or buy a house. Interesting questions that as a parent I struggle to find and answer to. Read more...
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It has been a year since I started this blog. 237 articles :) I need to think about what this second year will be about Read more...
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From the book Good strategy/Bad Strategy In the 50 years between 1875 and 1925 the following happened: Electricity starts being used for lighting Electricity being used in factories, changing everything and vaporising any previous investment. For example before electricity power was mostly generated by a big wheel pushed by a water stream, factories had to be close to a water stream (hence real estate prices near water were high), also the power capped the size of the company. Read more...
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What’s new in Cloud FinOps? Episode 1 - October - Why do Cloud Providers price the way they do? Please share :) Different way I am sharing this exciting initiative: A new podcast that focuses on your cloud bill and helps you understand the financial strategies behind cloud pricing. Finally, a #podcast speaking the CFO/CTO language about the cloud. Pick your favourite one :) Read more...