A geospatial career journey
Taking over someone else's code is hard. There is probably no better look at how a person thinks than looking at their code. It can be tempting to trash their code and start from scratch. This temptation often runs into conflict with a sunk-cost fallacy that says "The previous person spent so much time on … Continue reading Lessons from Maps and Old Code
I finished my MBA work this week. Grades won't post until next week, which means my completion won't be finalized until next month sometime, but I am done. Approximately 18 months of graduate level work done all online, mostly during a pandemic, has come to an end. I have learned a lot that I will … Continue reading Life and How to Live It
For a long time now, I have tried to take a holistic approach to my day. I long ago seized upon the idea that time is the primary resource to manage and that all others, including money, are secondary. Show me a person who says "Time is money" and I will show you someone who … Continue reading Geography Matters Less
"Ops" is all the rage these days - DevOps, RevOps, FinOps, PeopleOps. I'm surprised I haven't seen a mention of "GeoOps" yet, given the propensity of our corner of the world to attach the "geo" prefix to what ever the current hotness may be. "Ops" is, of course, short for "operations" and "operations" is a … Continue reading In Praise of Process
Since everyone works from home now, I hear a lot of the same complaint about the proliferation of online meetings. A lot of people I know seem to have their calendars overwhelmed by one kind of meeting or another. This situation is invariably described as preventing them from getting work done. Let's be clear about … Continue reading On Meetings