Be Bold (a commencement speech for my son)
Like so many of you, I have a senior in high school and the graduation ceremony they receive, if any, will not have that oh so carefully worded commencement speech. That speech that seeks not […]
Success
Start Being Great Today
I often talk to individuals and teams about transforming into truly GREAT individuals and teams. Its a well honed shtick, what got you here will not get you there, what are you doing different today […]
Fault tolerance at 100,000 requests per second
I bumped into this old post on the Netflix blog this weekend. It is an amazingly practical walk through of an implementation of my post on the 7 Pillars of Resilient Service Engineering. My post […]
Happy, Rich, Or Famous, pick one!
John Warrillo posted this on Forbes today, read it first, it only takes a couple minutes then come back. His post is interesting because I generally like what he is saying but feel it was […]
7 Awesome Books To Change Your Life
As a parent I often find myself saying, please, oh please, oh please don’t make the same mistakes I made. Don’t grab an electric fence to see how it feels, don’t try and take your […]
A Tool to Fix the One Thing Agile Does Not Explain
Agile, agile, agile, that’s all I hear. Ridiculous. When did not being a robot blindly following a set of rules become so unusual? Seriously, applying critical thought to your work everyday, should not be the […]
1 simple rule to make you smarter than this man
This is Quentin Cooper. He is a science blogger for the BBC, queue awesome British accent here, it makes everyone seem smarter and cooler. Quentin has a fascinating job and is well respected by his […]
How to Reinvent Your Business
If you are reading this recently you probably said, “Oh Crap” or some other exceptionally deep admission of feeling up the creak without a paddle. Perhaps not. If you have ever known anyone who got […]
Put Your Career Into Warp Drive
<soapbox> We are all so petty, thinking we have to fight and scrabble for every little victory, its pathetic. The reality is the diversity of style and approach that we so rile against when we […]
Do You Know Your VORP
Not a class 8 Vorpal sword you geek, Value Over Replacement Player, OK equally geeky. You baseball fans out there will recognize this stat. A guy I work with, Eray, taught me its importance in business. […]
The Tao of Todd 