Author: Tony Tam
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Not Proud to be myself?
I was fortunate to attend a talk by BD Wong in San Francisco and the playwright Lauren Yee promoting her play “Great Leap Forward”. BD Wong is an openly gay Asian man. He talked about how as an adult, he finally announcing to the world about being gay and being very proud to be gay…
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Standing your ground
Two and a half years ago, when I joined my current company I was attending a new hire training and the last slide showed a very long URL to a document that we were suppose to remember for more information. I asked the presenter whether there is a URL shortener so that we URLs are…
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Forming habits to meditate, stretch, and the next step
By accident I stumbled upon a method to start changing behaviors. 2018 In 2018 I wanted to not buy anything that was not perishable. I wanted to learn to pratice self control. As the year passed, I wrote down as few rules as I realized the gap between a very strict rule and what else…
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Link: Walt Mossberg, Veteran Technology Journalist, Quits Facebook
https://nyti.ms/2R7ovxI Mr. Mossberg, a veteran of The Wall Street Journal, The Verge and Recode, said on Monday he would be deactivating his Facebook account, along with the Facebook-owned Messenger and Instagram apps.
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Technical Reading Week Dec 17th
Netflix’s Journey moving to GraphQL: The visual graphs of the level of abstraction was useful. Seeing Netflix move to GraphQL gives the technology more weight. https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/our-learnings-from-adopting-graphql-f099de39ae5f Wow, how did I miss a competitor to React for a multi-platform mobile development platform from Google? Flutter.io Looking forward to GoLang finally trying to solve the modules issue.…
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You leak my data, 1 strike and you are out!
Goodbye Quora, you leak my data and I delete my account on your services. Goodbye Yahoo, you leak my data and I delete my account. Anyone else?
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Book Notes: The Person You Mean To Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Raw notes from the book : The Person You Mean To Be: How Good People Fight Bias Not a binary notion, bounded ethicality Important to us that we are a good person, we feel threaten when we don’t hit the bar. We have blind spots, as a good person, if there is no room from…
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Limited motivation
Recently I have been running dry on my personal motivation on important projects such as transcribing Impactful Engineer. I have not been able to diagnose what the root cause is. Some possible reasons could be Transcription is not what motivates me and hence I’m putting it off The overall project and goals is not current…
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Effective Engineering Teams
An effective engineering team is highly collaborative, focused on delivering high quality code with velocity. The team sets the standard for other teams to follow in how they design software, write and test their software and ultimately delivering business value to the customer. The team functions as a coherent group, helping each other succeed, having…
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Read: You Can’t Be a Great Manager If You’re Not a Good Coach – HBR
If you are a leader and/or a manager of people, go read You Can’t Be a Great Manager If You’re Not a Good Coach – HBR.org