The book The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win has become one of the must-read books in the IT/software arena. It’s been on my reading list for over a year, so a few of…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 27
Dates covered: July 1-7, 2019 (week 27 of 52) Business The Upside of Losing Innovative Employees to Competitors (via Harvard Business Review) The article focuses on R&D employees, so your mileage may vary. The relationship between companies isn’t binary, and…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 26
Dates covered: June 24-30, 2019 (week 26 of 52) Business What Startup Employees Can Teach the Rest of Us About Work (via Harvard Business Review) “Where stability and long-term planning were once the mark of a sound strategy, adaptability is…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 25
Dates covered: June 17-23, 2019 (week 25 of 52) Business Software Below the Poverty Line (via The Software Mentor) (This post spans categories — business, software development, culture.) Open source software is an interesting area, as it seems to straddle…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 24
Dates covered: June 10-16, 2019 (week 24 of 52) Business When Employees Are Using Software That IT Hasn’t Approved (via Harvard Business Review) Although I haven’t experienced it to the scale of the examples mentioned in the article, there are…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 23
Dates covered: June 3-9, 2019 (week 23 of 52) Business How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward (via Harvard Business Review) Deleverage as much debt as you can; when revenue is tight, it’s difficult to make principal and interest…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 22
Dates covered: May 27-June 2, 2019 (week 22 of 52) NOTE: A bit lighter this week, as I’m on vacation. Business Don’t Break Up Facebook — Treat It Like a Utility (via Harvard Business Review) The big tech companies like…
Genessis Models F-14D Build
Bobby Waldron put together a phenomenal set of 26 videos (over 13 hours) of a 1/48-scale Hobby Boss F-14D Tomcat. I picked up so many tips from this set, I decided to make a table of contents. (I know I’ll…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 21
Dates covered: May 20-26, 2019 (week 21 of 52) Business How Executive Recruiters Maintain Secrecy (via Harvard Business Review) I’ll skip the numbered list, as I doubt any of my readers are being recruited as executives. The amount of covert…
Battle Damaged F-4G Phantom: Part 7
(There are several videos instead of a single, lengthy video. Please see the individual sections for those videos.) In the previous post I assembled and painted the air intakes. This post covers painting the fuselage. Description Other than the filling…