Business The Most Pressing People Questions Facing Companies Today (via Harvard Business Review) How do you balance your human workforce with automation? What are your plans for remote work? How are you helping ensure employee mental health? How are you…
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A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 10
This week we covered chapter 18 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topic today was graphs. Jamie did the examples in…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 6
Business Should You Rehire an Employee Who Left Your Company? (via Harvard Business Review) A study showed there’s no significant change in (1) performance of the re-hire, (2) improvement in their performance over time compared to external or internal hires,…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 9
This week we covered chapter 17 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topic today was tries. Wikipedia says trie can be…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 5
Agile Scrum Master Panel Discussion @ Clayton Homes I was one of three panelists (Gretchen Node, Arash Farsi); facilitated by Joanna Holbrook. We talked about the Scrum Master role with focuses on inspiration, motivation, tactical tips, and how others can…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 8
This week we covered chapters 15 and 16 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topics today were binary search trees and…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 4
Business The Rules of Co-opetition (via Harvard Business Review) Sometimes it makes sense to collaborate with a competitor, because if you don’t the competitor will still cause you problems because they’ve gotten help from someone else. There are also times…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 3
Agile Stand-up Meetings Inhibit Innovation (via Harvard Business Review) Synchronizing and realigning on goals can make you efficient, but that may be at the expense of novelty. Being agile doesn’t inherently make you more innovative. Business 9 Trends That Will…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 7
This week we covered chapters 13 and 14 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topics today were Quicksort and linked lists….
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 2
Agile What Happens When You Use Agile for the Wrong Reasons? (via Mountain Goat Software) It rarely goes well. Don’t just follow the herd; ask yourself why certain things are important to you. (The Five Whys technique is helpful here.)…