Setting Up a Semi-Smart Tubular Motor for My Blinds ZM25TQ with Home Assistant
21 July 2025Setting Up a Semi-Smart Tubular Motor for My Blinds ZM25TQ-0.8/25 with Home Assistant
July, 2025
March, 2025
Things to read and watch in 2025
19 March 2025See 2024’s Things to read and watch
Engineer titles in plain english
19 March 2025I came across this on LinkedIn nd it was too good to let it get lost in the internet.
November, 2024
Appreciation Activity
25 November 2024Objective:
Moving to Windows
20 November 2024I’ve recently done a move from Mac back to Windows. This is intended as a temporary move to help push me to get back up to speed on Windows.
October, 2024
Engineering Culture in broad terms
07 October 2024Engineering culture is the set of ideas, customs, and social behaviors that influence an organization’s engineering practices. Positive engineering culture helps build attitudes, habits, mindsets, and community. The goal is to reduce poor quality and raise the level of engineering constructions.
March, 2024
Speed First Efficiency Second
13 March 2024I came across this quote in the Platforms book: Speed first, efficiency second. It explains that organisations traditionally view common elements as an opportunity to avoid duplication and achieve efficiency by doing things just once instead of multiple times. The overemphasis on efficiency through reuse leads to everything tending to...
February, 2024
People and Results Centric Leadership
28 February 2024There are many different ways to lead - one of the big risks of leading large groups is you begin to abstract away the humans in the process and see people as cogs. The problem with this it is easy for a company’s leadership to fall into the trap of...
Community of Practice - Ideas
16 February 2024Give a specific focus/role to people welcoming new members or people attending the community for the first time
4P Meetings
14 February 20244 P Meetings - how do we make meetings more impactful?
Three strategic tools for a leader
05 February 2024There are three tools that Culture Amp focuses on
1) Scaling questions / gap analysis
2) Three-lens analysis
3) UC checking or pre-mortems
January, 2024
Things to read and watch in 2024
24 January 2024See 2025’s Things to read and watch
See 2023’s Things to read and watch
December, 2023
The ambiguity of the dollar symbol
07 December 2023Having gone through a recent budgeting process, I am struck by the ambiguity of the $ symbol. The $ symbol is contextual shorthand for many currencies but does not tell you the exact currency type. For instance, $1 could refer to USD 1, NZD 1 or AUD 1, depending on...
October, 2023
Brandolinis Law
23 October 2023I was recently introduced to Brandolini’s law, which effectively says:
Seven steps and sequencing for an initiative
18 October 2023The following method has proven to be effective when undertaking a change initiative. It includes these steps in sequence:
Leadership Style
15 October 2023Let’s first put some words to describe different leadership styles.
September, 2023
Engineering Team Needs Model
12 September 2023Continuous Delivery in software is about providing incremental value to customers daily and improving their satisfaction with what’s already been delivered. In a software delivery system, many elements need to function correctly for this to work effectively.
August, 2023
Slack and other chat tool tips
19 August 2023Don’t interrupt a large group
Growing from 70 people to 200 in 48 months
19 August 2023At my current organisation, we went from 70 people in Engineering in Nov 2019 to just over 200 people in 2023i. That’s a growth of 134 people in 48 months or adding four new people to our Engineering group every month for three years.
June, 2023
Confidentiality and Openness
02 June 2023The importance of maintaining confidentiality in safe space.
Page 1 of 45
Older Posts →
See all posts by category...
Want to get my personal insights on what I learn as I learn it? Subscribe now!