Cofounder of honeycomb.io, coauthor of Database Reliability Engineering. Operations engineer, DBA, systems engineer, SRE, devops, etc. On call since I was 17.
The only good diff is a red diff.
Hell no, I am a music major dropout (with side gigs in classical latin and greek, philosophy, etc). I never had computers growing up. I ran away to college when I was 15 though, and developed a crush on a boy who spent his time in the computer lab.
The lab stuck; the boy didn't.
Advice for those wanting to move to management: question yourself about why you want to do people management. Lots of people want it for the wrong reasons. And it's very different than wanting a future in leadership, which every single senior eng can and should have.
There's no scarcity of leadership work. I think it's terribly toxic to confuse management with leadership though.
Cofounder of honeycomb.io, coauthor of Database Reliability Engineering. Operations engineer, DBA, systems engineer, SRE, devops, etc. On call since I was 17.
The only good diff is a red diff.
Hell no, I am a music major dropout (with side gigs in classical latin and greek, philosophy, etc). I never had computers growing up. I ran away to college when I was 15 though, and developed a crush on a boy who spent his time in the computer lab.
The lab stuck; the boy didn't.
Advice for those wanting to move to management: question yourself about why you want to do people management. Lots of people want it for the wrong reasons. And it's very different than wanting a future in leadership, which every single senior eng can and should have.
There's no scarcity of leadership work. I think it's terribly toxic to confuse management with leadership though.
Thank you - that's a very good point! Also high five for art backgrounds 🙌 I love that. Thanks again for doing this AMA!
Word. I think the liberal arts are the best education that 90% of humanity can possibly get. All hail philosophy majors. 👏