Episode 4: You get what you pay for - compensating tech staff is often done poorly
We discuss compensation, particularly how people in the IT department ("developers," etc.) are so disconnected from the actual business that compensat...
Misaligned Incentives
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We all want to improve, especially businesses. Knowing what we should be doing is easy, knowing how to change is the hard part. This podcast is a wunderkammer of discussions, interviews, talks, and other recordings trying to figure out how organizations can actually improve. For the most part this is the story of organizations trying to become "tech companies," to do "digital transformation." It's a companion to a book in progress, The Business Bottleneck (https://cote.io/bottleneck/).
Episode 3: Improvement requires fear, or, digital transformation by crisis and fear
People in large organizations avoid improving for improving's sake. They're very rarely proactive in transforming. Instead, it seems that management i...
Camping, OODA and Observing Racism
The anti-racsim list: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic Donate: The NAACP: https://www.n...
tirefi.re burns brightly in our hearts
History of Tirefi.re Immutable OSs, is that really something that’s worth looking into for servers? Could you use ChromeOS’s philosophy on servers? Fl...
noobs, grills, and ytmnd
Paul’s dev.to homework - Broberg’s a Dev.to noob. Broberg buys a grill Matty’s wacky wheels devop gameshow (https://irreverentdevops.com) Favorite web...
Paper Plates vs China, instead of Pets vs Cattle
Salt stack bug, what is it, wait what is zeroMQ? https://www.zdnet.com/article/saltstack-salt-critical-bugs-allow-data-center-cloud-server-hijacking-a...
Using Twitter without losing your mind, and, shit posting versus punching up
Lists are cool, TweetDeck is pretty powerful, how to wrangle that crazy firehose of information. The fine art of shitposting.
Hot sauce, pipelines and fermentation
JJ, Matt Broberg, and Paul go deep into hot sauces and wonder why pipelines do what they do. * Live streaming - pros and cons and why? Ribs Names Srir...
dot files, Mukbang, and Tom Nook
Managing configuration, watching people eat, app launcher, animal crossing, and vim jokes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra for Webinars
We're learning more about doing conferences and events online, instead of in-person. Basically, how do you make webinars better and re-create the "hal...