Tag: colleagues

You may have heard about Kafka if you are studying for a system design interview or dealing with data-intensive applications. Even if you don’t work with distributed systems before, you probably have heard of “Kafka” during a water cooler chat with your colleagues. In the system...

There has been a running battle at my employer over the last few years. I think we can now announce that the results are in. After all of this time, my employer is right and the vast majority of employees are wrong. This is different from usual. Usually both the employers and employee...

Sometimes you don’t even need to hear any words to receive positive reinforcement. This past weekend was a beautiful day to partake in pulling invasive vines off of trees in Guandu Nature Park. After gathering in the basement of the nature center in the park and learning what our task wou...

I retired from practicing law at 69. I had planned to work until 70, but the pandemic made work a pain in the ass. I had enough money to retire and began to wonder, more and more, as I sat in the office an hour before anyone else arrived, why I was still doing it. I was at my desk when Henry Fall...