A new goal: publish a tiny micro post every day
I have been meaning to write for a long time. I want to publish updates about what I’ve been learning in real time, but I always want to give beefy, meaningful, and helpful content, and that makes me put things off. So I think that starting now (bad timing, I know, this is not an April Fools’ joke, I promise), I will publish daily: one small thing I have learned. This way I can document my journey and my growth. I promise you this will be my real voice, not a chatbot instructed to give some buzzword-riddled slop.
Here is a list of problems and areas where I have been putting effort to improve:
- Container networking: the inner intricacies of link-local networking between network namespaces
- Metrics, OTEL, and how they apply to AWS ECS
- How to use the new AI tools (me and everybody else)
- How to stay up to date in an industry that is changing constantly
- The human side: how to do politics if you hate doing politics
- How do all the systems in AWS work together?
- How to communicate effectively
- How to manage ambiguity
- How to manage a humongous workload
- How to listen, pay attention, and keep focused when it’s hard or boring
- How to be a leader
- How to be a (better) tech lead
- How to be authentic, genuine, and yet influence people effectively without becoming a con artist or a slimy manipulator
- How to look ahead and see what is coming up in the tech industry
I promise myself that I will not spend more than 15 minutes on these posts, so they won’t be premium content. I’m going to look at these posts more like really long tweets.
I promise you that this will not be AI-generated, that it will be truthful, and that I will, to the best of my ability, post one update each day. (If feasible.)