Month: February 2019

Carve out your own thinking space

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A message to you, Rudy Dear Managers, Do you feel that your day is a conveyor belt of meetings, starting at 9AM and ending at 5PM? Do you find that despite the existence of that space you left in your calendar, neatly hollowed out between stacks of meetings where you intended to eat your lunch, that yet again someone has booked in a meeting called “Quick chat” with no prior warning, without asking you for […]

Who could be your Jeff Dean?

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Facts! If you’re a programmer, you’ve probably relished in some of the many Jeff Dean facts. Here’s a selection for you: Indeed, these “facts” aren’t facts at all, and there’s plenty more where they came from. If Chuck Norris is the embodiment of machismo then Jeff Dean has evolved into the industry’s manifestation of superhuman computer science wizardry.   You may not know who Jeff Dean is, which, I must add, is entirely unreasonable. Let’s […]