Storytime with Auntie Aja
summary
Series of workplace fables that give concrete tactics and outcomes: using a Cadbury Creme Egg bribe to get a production fix, forking a spare machine into 10 processes in an infinite-loop stress test that runs a weekend and exposes failures, pre-generating 10,000 sudokus overnight to serve real-time requests, restoring production from a 45-minute backup after running migrations on the wrong DB, scheduling a single annual tantrum to force a blocker fix, and proving ideas by shipping throwaway code that others clean up.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:01The power of stories
- 3:15Knowing people's bribes
- 7:31Right versus effective
- 9:32Making conscious choices
- 10:53Scheduling your tantrums
- 15:12Prioritizing with alligators
- 19:00Arguing in code
- 21:20Being silly and strategic
- 23:36Success and self-worth
- 25:32Closing thoughts
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