Tag: productivity
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Morning routines
At 4:45 am PST, I just finished listening to the book “what most successful people do before breakfast”, I felt inspired to This new habit is to write a single blog post for my future self before 9am.
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My Email Flow
If you send an email to me, it’s very likely (95% chance) I will reply If you are recruiting me for a position at company X – You will get a polite / canned response that “I am extremely happy at Splunk and want to be there for 4 years to help the company grow”.…
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A Very Fulfilling Day By Helping Others Remove Frustrations
As a software engineer, I had one of the most rewarding day in recent months. When I got into the office, a developer from Flickr filed a ticket about UI browser testing into another Jira queue (bug tracking) and I happen to see that it’s related to the SauceLab project I now own as a…
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Making a difference in the large corporate world
While chatting informally with some co-workers, I heard some of them talking about their frustrations about not feeling recognized for their work or working on projects they don’t think makes a difference. Corporations, which usually mean people in management roles, value those individuals who go beyond doing what they are told to do and look…
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1-liner setup for your development environment
ydev setup <anything> I did an informal poll at Yahoo, and also with candidates who interview with Yahoo. When they join a new team, how long did it take to setup their dev environment. It ranges from 30 minutes to a day, and even several days. I asked them what if I pour water on…
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Link: How To Use Email To Alienate Your Users
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/02/11/how-email-alienate-users/