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In this deep-dive conversation, Tash breaks down the illusion of separation, the quantum nature of reality, and how decentralization aligns with our evolutionary path. From quantum physics to metaphysics, blockchain to sovereignty, and psychedelics to self-discovery, this discussion is a mind-expanding journey into what it truly means to transcend control structures and embrace infinite possibility.
Today, we're talking with Eric Metelka, Head of Product at Eppo, a next-gen A/B experimentation platform for product teams. With a background in A/B testing and data science, Eric has worked in building product at companies like Cameo, SpotHero, and G2. In this episode, Eric talks about: The process he used to cold start G2's review product and turn it into a self-sustaining flywheel His secrets to running great A/B tests that can really prove your impact on product growth How he recovered from Cameo's Engineering Director telling his entire exec team that all Eric's test data was incorrect and what he learned from that Links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericmetelka/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/eric3000 BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/eric3000.bsky.social Eppo: https://www.geteppo.com/ Build Product like Linear | Nan Yu, Head of Product (Linear, Everlane, BOA): https://youtu.be/7ISWLoQtNOc Chapters 00:00 Intro 03:01 Strategies for Gathering Reviews 05:19 Automating the Review Process 07:54 Scaling and Growth at G2 16:38 Transition to Power Reviews 20:48 Challenges in Competing with Shopify 22:51 Product Lessons from Implementation Processes 24:03 Importance of Institutional Knowledge 25:05 Navigating Leadership and Learning 26:04 Understanding Revenue Recognition 27:56 Effective A/B Testing Strategies with Data Science 28:39 Product Experimentation Pitfalls at Cameo 38:33 Improving Digital User Experience at Cameo 41:52 Outro Follow LaunchPod on YouTube We have a new YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/@LaunchPod.byLogRocket)! Watch full episodes of our interviews with PM leaders and subscribe! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today. (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Special Guest: Eric Metelka.
Former Engineering manager at BOAC and British Airways and Engineering Director at Cathay Pacific, Stewart takes us through the challenges of selecting and keeping aircraft in the air in both the Far East and in the UK. Though starting life as a BOAC apprentice, Stewart spent his early years on secondment to Kuwait Airways and Malaysia-Singapore Airline and he tells us about life living away from home often as the only engineer certified to maintain the airline's types. Back in the UK, Stewart spent most of the 1970s at Heathrow dealing with the challenges posed by the unions, engineers and the fleet of Boeing 747s and 707s. Steward finished his time as a full-time employee in Hong Kong as Cathy Pacific's Engineering Director, working with Boeing, Rolls-Royce and his engineers selecting and maintaining over 60 wide-bodied aircraft and Dragonair's fleet of narrow bodied aircraft. Not ready for the allotment, Stewart returned to the UK to take up consultancies and board positions with many aviation companies including Rolls-Royce and Airbus. Always a Committee man, Steward also discusses his term as President of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers and the International Federation of Airworthiness. During the interview, Stewart shares some amusing and fascinating tales of the people he met and the challenges he faced during his varied career. Stewart John FREng FRAeS talked with Keith Cameron in September 2024 for the Royal Aeronautical Society/National Aerospace Library's oral history project ‘If I only didn't do it that way…….” Capturing history from the horse's mouth to inspire today's aeronautical professionals. … . The podcast was edited by Eur Ing Mike Stanberry FRAeS. The transcript of the recording can be accessed on the National Aerospace Library's catalogue: https://raes.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/1116153
لو خطر في بالك قبل كده ليه عندنا كل قواعد البيانات دي, و ليه فيه منهم انواع مختلفة DBMS, NOSQL و غيرهم, طيب الناس اللي بتشتغل على الحاجات دي ايه التحديات اللي بيواجهوها, و ايه التخصص ده و ايه المتطلبات بتاعته. Ahmed Ayad is a SQL Engineer by trade, a database guy by education and training, and data dude by passion. I am currently an Engineering Director of the Managed Storage and Workload Management team in Google #BigQuery, building the best large scale enterprise data warehouse on the planet. My team owns the core parts of BigQuery involved in managing user data, metadata catalog, streaming and batch ingestion, replication, resource management and placement, physical sharding, and structured lake analytics. Over the years we have: - Grew data under management by several orders of magnitude. - Grew BigQuery's global footprint to more than 20+ regions and counting. - Enabled the hyper scaling of data analytics for a Who's Who list of Fortune 500 users, both Enterprise and Cloud-native. I am passionate about building cool technologies at scale, and the effective teams that create them. Things I did in previous professional lives: - I have shipped components in SQL Server product since SQL Server 2008. Worked on the Performance Data Collector, Policy Based Management, AlwaysOn, The Utility Control Point, SQL Azure stack from the backend to the middle-tier and Portal, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Optimizer, and SQL Server Management Tools. - Did Database research in the areas of Data Mining, Query Optimization, and Data Streaming.
Tom Occhino, Chief Product Officer at Vercel and former Engineering Director at Facebook, joins Sam to talk about the pivotal moments in React's history. He talks about how React popularized the ideas of declarative rendering and unidirectional data flow, how GraphQL furthered React's goal of co-locating all the concerns of a particular piece of UI, the problems that GraphQL led to at Facebook and how Relay solved them, and how Suspense, Server Components, and PPR are the generalized spiritual successors to the stack used at Facebook.Timestamps:0:00 - Intro2:53 - Declarative rendering as React's legacy8:12 - How GraphQL enabled complex components to be fully self-contained20:12 - How React's goal has always been to co-locate all the concerns of a particular piece of UI22:58 - The problem with co-locating GraphQL with components, and how Relay solved it26:28 - How RSC is the generalized spiritual successor to BigPipe and GraphQL34:46 - What PPR is, and how it and Suspense fit into this story55:55 - The general paradigm shift of getting static code to the device as soon as possibleLinks:Tom Occhino with Ben DunphyReact: The DocumentaryReact Roundtable with Andrew Clark and Sebastian MarkbågeTom Occhino on Twitter
In today's podcast we once again build on Labour's first King's Speech and dig into the UK's ambitions for an energy transition.The government has placed energy security and the rapid move away from fossil fuels high on its agenda for this parliament underlining its pre-election manifesto pledges to do just that. This set out the route towards energy independence, stretching towards a clean energy future by 2030 with Great British Energy, its newly launched publicly-owned energy company driving investment into onshore wind, solar power and offshore wind power.It's certainly an ambitious plan. Some might say over ambitious. However, it is an ambition that will require the entire infrastructure sector to buy into as we move the dial towards a new era away from the dependence on imported energy.Offshore wind sits at the heart of delivering this ambition as the most expensive but arguably least community disruptive source. Current plans set out by the last government aimed for an additional 50 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity in the UK by 2030 – a tripling of the current 28GW installed. Big numbers indeed. Which makes the UK's port network critical to accessing this huge resource, providing the shipping capacity, the skills and expertise and of course the infrastructure required to bring the power back to the land. It's a huge challenge and a huge opportunity for the port sector, which, by the way, is also simultaneously at the heart of the UK's efforts to drive growth and smooth the flow of post-Brexit trade and exports into mainland Europe. Investing to improve this infrastructure is clearly going to be critical. So let's hear more. My guest today is Francis Paonessa, Capital Projects and Engineering Director at Associated British Ports. With 21 ports under its management across England, Scotland and Wales, ABP is the UK's largest port operator and as such is deeply involved in smoothing the flow of UK freight but also in providing the infrastructure and expertise that will become the backbone for the UK's plans for energy transition. ResourcesAssociated British Ports websiteKing's SpeechWhat are Freeports? Great British EnergyOffshore wind strategy
Time to explore the next frontier in cloud-native evolution: WebAssembly (WASM). Moving beyond containers and Kubernetes, WASM bears the promise to revolutionize the cloud landscape with unparalleled performance, portability, and security. Can it actually deliver on this promise? We discussed this and more it in this episode. We delved into how WASM is transforming the way we build and run cloud-native applications, enabling a more efficient, scalable, and flexible infrastructure. We also got latest insights from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's work in the domain, the wasmCloud open source project and the tool landscape, along with the work of the WASM working group and standardization efforts with the Bytecode Alliance. This episode's guest is Taylor Thomas, Engineering Director working on WebAssembly platforms at Cosmonic. He serves as a co-chair for the CNCF's WASM working group, and as a CNCF Ambassador. He actively participates in the open source community and is one of the creators of Krustlet and Bindle. His work at Intel, Nike, and Microsoft spanned various containers and Kubernetes platforms as well as WebAssembly platforms. The episode was live-streamed on 18 July 2024 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2xIoVNwtKM OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability Show Notes: 00:00 - Show, episode and guest intro 04:50 - Celebrating a decade to Kubernetes and the power of open source communities 07:18 - What is WebAssembly (WASM) 11:29 - WASM support among programming languages 15:24 - IDE, debuggers and developer experience using WASM 18:48 - WASM support for browser and Frontend (DOM manipulation etc.) 21:13 - Standardization of WASM in operating systems 23:40 - WASM component model 29:43 - WASM working groups in the CNCF and Bytecode Alliance 31:36 - WASM ecosystem 36:57 - Which workloads WASM fits best 40:01 - what's wasmCloud 44:18 - wasmCloud benefits for Platform Engineering, IoT and Edge Computing 47:22 - WASM compatibility with Kubernetes 49:54 - Observability in wasmCloud, OpenTelemetry support, and WASI-Observe 52:23 - Who's behind wasmCloud 56:21 - wasmCloud roadmap and community forum 59:07 - CNCF 2024 mid-year survey of top open source projects velocity 1:00:05 - OpenSearch project has just turned 3 Resources: https://webassembly.org/ W3C WebAssembly (WASM) standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/ W3C WebAssembly community group: https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/wasm/ Bytecode Alliance: https://bytecodealliance.org/ CNCF's WASM working group: https://tag-runtime.cncf.io/wgs/wasm/ WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) specification: https://wasi.dev/ WASI-Observe observability API specification: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-observe wasmCloud https://wasmcloud.com/ wasmCloud 1.0: https://wasmcloud.com/blog/wasmcloud-1-brings-components-to-enterprise wasmCloud roadmap: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/roadmap/q2 Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObserv YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon Taylor Thomas ============ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oftaylor/
Varshi Gupta: Engineering Director's Journey and Public Speaking Tips for Tech Professionals Varshi Gupta is a seasoned Engineering Director, spearheading DevOps and product engineering initiatives. However, her career trajectory wasn't always straightforward. In this episode, we explore Varshi's journey to her current role, how mastering public speaking has significantly impacted her career, and everything in between. To get in touch with Varshi, you can find her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/varshigupta. __ TEACH THE GEEK (http://teachthegeek.com) Subscribe and rate on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube Follow @teachthegeek (Twitter) and @_teachthegeek_ (IG) Get Public Speaking Tips for STEM Professionals at http://teachthegeek.com/tips
להרשמה לאופסייט שלנו על ניהול ומנהיגות - https://bit.ly/3yLUdIAמה המשמעות של Managing Up? איך בונים תקשורת טובה יותר עם המנהלים שלי? ואיך אפשר לעזור למנהלים שלנו להיות מנהלים טובים יותר עבורנו? לעיתים נדמה כאילו מערכת היחסים בין מנהלת לעובד היא חד צדדית - יש טקסים, פרקטיקות ודרכי פעולה שמנהלת צריכה לפעול לפיהן, והעובד יכול להיתפס כצד פסיבי בתוך מערכת היחסים הזו. האמת היא, שההפך הוא הנכון. כדי לייצר מערכת יחסים אידיאלית שתאפשר עבודה טובה יותר, שני הצדדים צריכים לעבוד על התקשורת ולדייק את דרכי העבודה שלהם כדי שיתאימו להם. במציאות, זה לא המנהלת שמנהלת את העובד - אלא גם העובד שצריך לדעת לנהל את המנהלת שלו.לעולם הזה, של איך לנהל את המנהלים שלנו, קוראים Managing Up, ובפרק השבוע דריה ורטהיים דיברה עם אור מי-פז, Engineering Director וגל סרף, Engineering Group Lead , בדיוק על זה.אור (AKA - המנהל) וגל (AKA - העובד) שיתפו בפרקטיקות שהם משתמשים בהם כדי לבנות תקשורת טובה יותר, מה קרה בפעמים שלא הצליחו לתקשר כמו שצריך, ואיך אפשר לתרגל את זה על בסיס יום יומי. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Join us for Take 2 of the Nerds Unplugged where I sit down with Deb Heiser, Engineering Director for the City of St. Louis Park, MN, and Richard McCoy, Public Works Director and City Engineer for the City of Robbinsdale, MN. We recap the last four episodes and chat about some random topics like college tours, bridge collapses, and infrastructure funding. I plan to have these Unplugged episodes about once every two months or so. If there is any topic you would like us to discuss, or have a question, feel free to send it in via the podcast website listed below. Thanks for listening!www.thepublicworksnerds.comShow Notes:https://www.pca.state.mn.us/news-and-stories/mpca-brings-cutting-edge-technology-to-minnesota-to-remove-pfas-from-water https://www.startribune.com/why-is-the-epa-regulating-pfas-and-what-are-these-forever-chemicals/600357849/ https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/and-polyfluoroalkyl-substances-pfas https://www.pca.state.mn.us/air-water-land-climate/minnesotas-pfas-blueprint Baltimore Harbor Bridge Collapse and state by state bridge condition data: https://www.axios.com/2024/04/25/baltimore-bridge-collapse-new-channel https://www.axios.com/local/nw-arkansas/2024/04/24/arkansas-bridge-conditions-baltimore Mpls Bridge Collapse: August 1, 2007https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridgeAI Generated Episode Description:Ever wondered about the people shaping our city landscapes, the minds behind the concrete, and the tales etched in our urban forests? Buckle up for an enlightening voyage with Deb Heiser and Richard McCoy, as we raise our glasses to Richard's National APWA Award win and dive into Deb's preemptive strike on pavement management. But hold on, because we're not just talking shop—get ready for a heartwarming detour through personal anecdotes, from navigating college tours to the dynamics of family life. It's a candid peek behind the hard hats, blending professional pride with the connective threads of our everyday lives.Now, let's saunter down the green path where city forestry meets cutting-edge technology. You'll hear the triumphant story of a new graduate taking root in her city forester career and how cities like Robbinsdale and Minnetonka aren't just standing by as the Emerald Ash Borer looms. Discover the arsenal of tools—from GIS to AI—that's revolutionizing how we safeguard our leafy canopies. And as if that wasn't enough, we're also painting a picture of how public works and park spaces can come together to create vibrant, community-centric spots you won't want to miss.But we're not shying away from the grittier side of things. Enter the labyrinth of infrastructure challenges, where the battle against time and decay calls for ingenious fixes like pipe lining and live sewer monitoring. Learn how we're calibrating our strategies for a smarter future, balancing the scales of high-tech aspirations with the stark reality of budget constraints. And in the shadow of past tragedies like bridge collapses, we're reminded of the unyielding importance of vigilance in infrastructure maintenance. So, if you're ready to ignite your passion for public works and peer into the blueprint of comm
Dan Moore is Principal Product Engineer for FusionAuth where he helps evangelize authentication, authorization, and security. Dan is a former CTO, AWS certification instructor, and Engineering Director and has a wealth of experience in back-end development spanning 25 years. In this conversation, we discuss the origins of Customer Identity Access Management, where it is today, and what the future may hold.Where to find DanLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mooreds/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mooredsGitHub: https://github.com/mooredsSubstack: https://ciamweekly.substack.com/Vendor neutral articles: https://fusionauth.io/articles/ Follow, Like, and Subscribe!Podcast: https://www.thecloudgambit.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCloudGambitLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thecloudgambitTwitter: https://twitter.com/TheCloudGambitTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thecloudgambit
Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin and the current managing director of the Litecoin Foundation. Some may also remember him as Engineering Director at Coinbase. But very notably, Charlie Lee is one of the earliest believers in the power of the Lightning Network and an investor in Lightning Labs. I've decided to invite Charlie on the Bitcoin Takeover podcast for the third time in order to ask him a simple yet puzzling question: how come Litecoin is still successful and thrives in a world where the Lightning Network exists and offers instant transactions on Bitcoin? Furthermore, I tried to figure out what it is that makes Litecoin successful 13 years on and how it can support Bitcoin with scaling.
Episode 84 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds our resident car hacks Matt Prior and Steve Cropley visiting JLR to talk to Vehicle Engineering Director Matt Becker, to find out what makes Defenders, Range Rovers, Discoveries and, crucially, upcoming Jaguars, tick. Hear this wide-ranging interview about Becker and JLR's current and future work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tom and Kirk Mattson (both Bowdoin '96 alums) discuss Kirk's view on what makes a great PM and the future of AI.
Erik Hermansen, the Director of Engineering at Bayer, joins us on the podcast today. Erik is a self-taught software engineer who is passionate about bleeding edge techs, like Generative AI and LLMs. He has a lot of sympathy for folks who feel overwhelmed and overloaded by all the hype around GenAI. His advice is to slow way down and focus on what can be done with the tech today. Throughout today's episode, Erik and Zach discuss the practical implications of GenAI right now. They'll give advice to engineers and businesspeople alike on how to take advantage of Generative AI and LLMs with bite-sized tasks that can be completed now, not at some unknown date in the future. Listen in as we cut through the hype and excitement and get down to the meat and potatoes. Like, Subscribe, and Follow: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAIUNkXmnAPgLWnqUDpUGAQ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/keyhole-software Twitter: @KeyholeSoftware Find even more Keyhole content on our website (https://keyholesoftware.com/). About Erik: Erik Hermansen is a technology leader who has recently been focused on digital agriculture solutions. In addition to his work as the Director of Engineering at Bayer, he has some side projects going in areas of animation, writing, and voice acting. He is passionate about diversity and fairness in the workplace and is always interested in friendly, open conversation. You can reach Erik at https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikhermansen/. Connections accepted, just mention LLMs, Zach, or Keyhole in your request.
Technological advancements are reshaping industries, and Trillium Flow Technologies stands at the forefront with its groundbreaking product launches for 2024. During a recent episode of FlowCast, Michelle Dawn Mooney delved deep into this innovation, revealing how Trillium's integration of its Gabbioneta Pumps and Termomeccanica Pompe brands facilitated the development of new standards in pump technology. With a heritage that spans over 200 years, Trillium's latest offerings reach far beyond product enhancement, but also about shaping the future of fluid movement technologies. How will Trillium's strategic integration of its product lines redefine the pump industry, and what does this mean for the future of engineered valves, pumps, and actuators? Sam Eccels, the Product Director for Pumps and Ricardo Ciceri, the Engineering Director at Trillium join Michelle Dawn Mooney on the show to discuss the company's innovative product launches for 2024 and their implications for the industry. They focus on: Trillium's relaunched product portfolio, including integrated offerings from Gabbioneta Pumps and Termomeccanica Pompe brands. Challenges faced during the integration process and strategies employed to overcome them. Future plans for Trillium, including vertical product rationalization and ongoing R&D projects. Sam Eccles boasts an impressive 17-year career in the pump industry, including various roles in commercial operations, quality, engineering, and product management. Ricardo Ciceri, with over 25 years of experience, has been pivotal in product and project management at Trillium. Their combined expertise underscores Trillium's commitment to innovation and excellence.
In this episode Randi takes us through a tool called Culture Index, that not only guides you to find your purpose but how to live, work, and experience it! Whether you manage people or are interested in learning more about yourself… Randi's work helps us to better understand how to first align with our purpose, and second how to communicate, manage and motivate in ways that work for us and the people we work with. More about Randi: Randi Fargen is a Culture Index Executive Advisor and business owner whose passion is aligning people with their purpose at work. As the President and Engineering Director of Dynamic Design, she mastered the Platinum Rule: Treat everyone the way THEY need to be treated. From there, she expanded her reach by starting her own consulting firm to work with business owners and leadership teams to help them better understand how to first align their people with purpose, and second how to communicate, manage and motivate each person in ways that work for them. This has been proven to increase happiness in the workplace, but also increases engagement, productivity and retention. Connect with Randi: If you are interested in learning more about yourself and/or your team, please use the link below to take the survey to start the conversation. https://take.surveys.ci/s/LFge2OGeDO/80674 Connect with Whitney: @whitneyabke www.whitneyabke.com Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZyBE4sWBEA Additional Resources: Join my monthly Healing Circle: https://www.whitneyabke.com/healing-circle Healing Circles will include Reiki, Tarot Readings, Oracle Card Readings, Intuitive Guidance, Affirmations, and Integrative Tools. I AM HEALED Program: https://www.whitneyabke.com/iamhealed --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-soulish-podcast/support
We get all the specifics on the updates for model year 2024 RMKs from Polaris Engineering Director Cal Larson. Driveshafts, spark plugs, fuel pressure sensor location, brake rotor and caliper and more. And we dive into what's going on with the recalls Polaris, where they come from and how the engineering team works to resolve them. Guest hosts Broc Genta and Bruce Kerbs. Hosted by Ryan Harris.
Часто карьерную лестницу технических менеджеров представляют исключительно через количественный рост в зоне ответственности, горизонте планирования и числе людей. Почему это не так и в чем есть качественные отличия поговорили с Евгением Котом. Космический спонсор выпуска — Orion soft, разработчик платформы виртуализации zVirt и экосистемы инфраструктурных продуктов. Узнайте о том, какие реестровые решения для Enterprise-бизнеса закрывают функции VMware и других западных вендоров, на orionsoft.ru и в TG-канале https://t.me/orionsoftru. Вакансии в Orion soft: https://www.orionsoft.ru/vacancy Также ждем вас, ваши лайки, репосты и комменты в мессенджерах и соцсетях! Telegram-чат: https://t.me/podlodka Telegram-канал: https://t.me/podlodkanews Страница в Facebook: www.facebook.com/podlodkacast/ Twitter-аккаунт: https://twitter.com/PodlodkaPodcast Ведущие в выпуске: Стас Цыганов, Егор Толстой, Евгений Кателла
At a time when we're all looking for environmentally friendly yet efficient travel, the railway industry is booming with popularity and investment. Our tech leader this week, Milena Nikolic is at the forefront of this sector. As CTO at Trainline, she is leading the team at one of the largest companies operating in this area. Milena joins Gareth to discuss her journey towards becoming a tech leader; from competing in coding competitions in Serbia to securing an internship at tech giant Google. Despite never initially being drawn to a leadership position, after being a part of Google's immense growth period, Milena noticed that any problems they were facing were due to people, not technology. This want to incite change in Google's company culture led to her becoming an Engineering Manager before ultimately being promoted to Engineering Director within her 12 years at the tech giant. Now as the CTO of Trainline, Milena discusses her role in one of the largest sectors across the globe, ensuring that she drives her team through goal setting, trusting the process, and being able to take things one step at a time. Time stamps What does good leadership mean to Milena? (03:37) Climbing the ranks at Google (04:55) What Milena would change about her time at Google (08:37) Google's innovation initiative (11:04) The key to successful delegation (12:55) Milena's backstory (15:05) Transitioning to Trainline (17:40) Transforming Trainline with AI (26:00) What does a CTO do? (33:10) Preventing burnout (35:00) The progress of equality within the tech industry (36:35) Milena's advice to her younger self (38:30) *Book recommendation: Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, by Cheryl Sandberg Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead: Amazon.co.uk: Sandberg, Sheryl: 9780753541647: Books
Niyati is an Engineering Director at Cummins Inc. in Columbus, Indiana. She's the author of Unafraid: A Survivor's Quest for Human Connection and also has a TedX talk on Cultural Bias and Stigma Associated with Cancer. She and her husband are parents to two wonderful kids.In this episode we speak about how fitness has played a role throughout Niyati's life. She shares her fitness journey growing up in India and then in the US where she came for her undergrad. She also describes how she continued to show up while fighting cancer and how she and her husband manage their routines today while prioritizing the needs of their kids! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tryathlete.substack.com
In this livestream I am joined by Michael Krenz, Engineering Director at Delivery Hero, to discuss the company's strategic approach to leveraging AWS cloud services for cost optimization. The conversation touches on how Delivery Hero integrates AWS features, like "spot instances," to achieve operational savings, their collaboration with AWS in building a customer data platform (CDP) using machine learning, and the broader cultural shift in prioritizing cost efficiency alongside performance and growth.
In between seeking out new tech and eating the finest fayre of his home nation, deputy editor Jack Luke enjoyed the track racing action at the 2023 World Championships in Glasgow. Sunday found him watching the qualifications for the men's elite individual pursuit, where Australia's Conor Leahy put in a storming effort onboard an unreleased Factor track bike, seeding sixth ahead of the final event. This led to some enthusiastic cheering from a group of Australians in the stands, and who should be in their midst but Paul Collins – the technical director for the Australian cycling team. In this episode of the BikeRadar Podcast, we hear what Collins thinks could be behind Jumbo-Visma's success at the 2023 Men's Tour de France and the hottest trends in track tech today. Do you have any questions, comments or ideas for the BikeRadar Podcast? Please send them through to Podcast@BikeRadar.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode, we talk about transportation systems with Deb Heiser, Engineering Director of St. Louis Park, MN. We discuss handling citizen requests,neighborhood meetings, how the city uses pilot projects to test traffic control changes in advance of street reconstruction projects, and her use of big data. Further Resourceshttps://www.streetlightdata.com/ http://www.mikeontraffic.com/temporary-traffic-calming-example/
What if speaking your mind could be joyful? In this episode, Jin Zhang shares how she transformed fear of speaking and judgement into joy of speaking her mind, and how embracing speaking with joy led to several unexpected and unique opportunities. Jin Zhang is an Engineering Director at Meta, instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies, and a TEDx speaker. In this episode she shares: ✔️How speaking with joy in 2 job interviews led to better-than-expected jobs ✔️The first step to convert fear of speaking into joy of speaking (start with a safe space) ✔️3 strategies leaders can use to unleash the joy within their teams (Anita, call on them in meetings, create a fun environment) ✔️Where to find joy when speaking your mind (in your passions, where you are now) ✔️Why when you speak about joy, it's very likely that you'll end up speaking with joy Resources mentioned in this episode Listen to Jin's TEDx talk to learn about more job opportunities in Tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYVgXpxy9Ps&t=1s Jin's DIY talk, more tips on growth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoeLpOK75-U Jin's product and innovation class at Stanford, registration is open NOW: https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/professional-and-personal-development/why-minimum-viable-product-is-no-longer-enough/20224_BUS-285 Other Episodes You'll Like: 6 Reasons Why Mellow, Friendly, Joy Sparking Marie Kondo Is Assertive: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/6-reasons-why-mellow-friendly-joy-sparking-marie-kondo-is-assertive How To Normalize Speaking Up: What Individuals And Organizations Can Do (With Helen Afford): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-normalize-speaking-up-what-individuals-and-organizations-can-do-with-helen-afford 5 Reasons Why Being More Assertive Actually Makes You Kinder: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/5-reasons-why-being-more-assertive-actually-makes-you-kinder Do You Make These Mistakes When You Praise People At Work?: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/do-you-make-these-mistakes-when-you-praise-people-at-work How To Build Professional Relationships With Executives As A Non-Executive - Tips from a Sr. Director of Engineering in Tech (With Bao Chau): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-build-professional-relationships-with-executives-as-a-non-executive-tips-from-a-sr-director-of-engineering-in-tech-with-bao-chao How To Advocate For Yourself Even If You're A People Pleaser Or Have Impostor Syndrome (With Erika Diaz): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-advocate-for-yourself-even-if-youre-a-people-pleaser-or-have-impostor-syndrome-with-erika-diaz 17 Free Ways To Bring Joy And Happiness To Others: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/17-free-ways-to-bring-joy-and-happiness-to-others Free Resources: TEDx Talk How To Speak Up Safely When It's Psychologically Unsafe: https://assertiveway.aweb.page/safespeak Ask me your question for the next episode here: https://www.speakpipe.com/speakyourmindquestion Sign up for 10 Day free Assertive And Liked Challenge: https://assertiveway.aweb.page/beassertiveandliked Free resources: https://assertiveway.com/free/ Assertiveness free training: https://assertiveway.aweb.page/getahead Assertive Communication Newsletter: https://assertiveway.com/newsletter Talk or Workshop on Speaking Up With Assertive Communication Services: https://assertiveway.com/services Podcast page: https://assertiveway.com/podcast-speak-your-mind-unapologetically/ Contact me info@assertiveway.com Or via Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivna-curi-mba-67083b2/ About Assertive Way: Website: https://assertiveway.com Rate the podcast on apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speak-your-mind-unapologetically-podcast/id1623647915 #SpeakingWithJoy #OvercomingFear #PublicSpeaking #Leadership #PersonalGrowth #JoyInWork #Empowerment #JoyfulCommunication #MindsetShift #CareerAdvancement #WomenInTech #TEDxSpeaker #EmotionalIntelligence #JinZhang #MetaEngineering #StanfordContinuingStudies #JoyfulLeadership #SpeakYourMind #TeamBuilding #ProfessionalDevelopment
Sima is happy to have Venkat Venkataramani joining her for today's episode of Data Gurus! Venkat is the CEO and Co-founder of Rockset. Venkat shares his background, dives into the benefits of real-time data analytics and cloud-based infrastructure, and discusses the interesting work they are doing at Rockset. Biography Venkat Venkataramani is CEO and Co-founder of Rockset. In his role, Venkat helps organizations build, grow, and compete with data by making real-time analytics accessible to developers and data teams everywhere. Before he founded Rockset, he was an Engineering Director for the Facebook infrastructure team managing online data services for 1.5 billion users. These systems scaled 1000x during his eight years at Facebook, serving five billion queries per second at single-digit millisecond latency and five 9s of reliability. Before joining Facebook, Venkat worked on tools to make the Oracle database easier to manage. Venkat's background Before he founded Rockset, Venkat managed online data infrastructure for Facebook between 2007 and 2015. He was fortunate to work with some amazing people and learned a lot from them. His team was responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining a set of services on which Facebook's online products had been built. When he started, Facebook had around thirty or forty million monthly active users, and when he left, there were about a billion-and-a-half active users. What makes Venkat the proudest What Venkat feels proudest of, having been part of the Facebook online data infrastructure, are all their product launches, and their transition from web to mobile. Facebook's Like button The load and demand on Facebook's data infrastructure were completely different before and after the installation of the Like button. So they had to keep on innovating and pushing the envelope. The Facebook Newsfeed Most people are surprised to hear that before 2008, the Facebook Newsfeed only got updated once a day! How real-time data has transformed business Real-time data allows people to know what is happening in the present moment. Before the advent of real-time data, strategic decisions were all intuition or experience-based rather than data-driven, and that caused many problems. Facebook's shift to real-time data During the eight years Venkat spent with Facebook, he saw the shift to real-time data happening across every aspect of the back end of Facebook. The benefits of the cloud The cloud allows everyone to have accessibility without having any specific kind of software or infrastructure within an organization. That enables every company to be a potential client. Rockset's orientation Rockset's orientation is cloud, whereas other companies are still transitioning and moving toward the cloud. The benefits of cloud-only infrastructure Cloud-only infrastructure allows businesses to access fast and fresh real-time data analytics. The storage separation of the cloud makes it possible to build massively scalable and very efficient real-time databases and platforms that can be easily and cost-effectively scaled up or down, depending on the demand. About Rockset Rockset is cloud-only, so it requires neither downloads nor installation. All their customers have to do is create an account and explain where their data sources are, and Rockset will automatically transform their data into fast sequel tables. Why do businesses prefer real-time data? Working with cloud-based real-time data streams makes it much quicker and simpler for businesses to scale, monitor their business metrics, eliminate risk, build better products for their customers, and save revenue that could potentially have been lost. Links: Email me your thoughts Sima@Infinity-2.com LinkedIn Twitter Infinity-2.com Venkat Venkataramani on LinkedIn Rockset
Gordon Radlein (@maascamp, Engineering Director at @Datadoghq) talks about the evolution of Open Telemetry (OTel), Logging, Metrics and Observability. SHOW: 706CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave an identity challenge you thought was too big, too complicated, or too expensive to fix? Let us solve it for you! Visit strata.io/cloudcast to share your toughest IAM challenge and receive a set of AirPods ProMake Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainableKubeConEU Virtual Event Registration Code: Please use the code KCEUVCCP, while supplies last.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and SavingsCloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:OpenTelemetry (OSS project)OpenTracing + OpenCensus = Open Telemetry (OTel)What is Open Telemetry?Open Telemetry Slack Channel Components of Open TelemetryOpenTelemetry in DatadogTrace Collection through Open TelemetryTopic 1 - Welcome to the show Gordon. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you're focused on these days at Datadog?Topic 2 - Let's start with some basics - help us connect the dots between Telemetry and Logs and Metrics and Observability. And how does the Open Telemetry (OTel) project fit into the bigger picture?Topic 3 - Telemetry has always been a tradeoff between how much data to collect and how much data can be processed. How do you see companies using Telemetry today? Does it usually depend on the company size, or the complexity of the application? Topic 4 - How does Datadog offer Open Telemetry to customers today? Has that evolved over time, as the standard has evolved? Topic 5 - What are some of the new trends happening around Open Telemetry Topic 6 - You've been around quite a bit of very large-scale infrastructure in your career. What are some of the tips that you'd give anybody trying to build out or scale their observability environments? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet
Austin Doucet began his career at Fenstermaker in 2017 as a Civil Engineering Student Intern shortly before his graduation in 2019 from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. For the duration of his now 6-year tenure with our firm, and through his current position as an Engineer Intern, Austin has been working toward obtaining his Professional Engineering Licensure with mentorship and supervision from Engineering Director, Jeanne Hornsby, who leads our Water Resources team. Austin has been involved in reviewing and developing flood study analyses, the designing of open channel and subsurface drainage systems, and has assisted and managed the development of hydrologic and hydraulic numerical models as part of Fenstermaker project teams. Austin has worked heavily in dealing with Calcasieu Parish Regional Watershed Modeling and Planning. He has played a vital role in the ongoing development of a Stormwater Master Plan for Calcasieu Parish, his main responsibilities including that of data collection and inventory, hydrologic and hydraulic numerical modeling, the creation of a Drainage Infrastructure Watershed Report Card, along with the effective implementation and monitoring of the masterplan itself. Austin has routinely assisted in the development of hydrologic and hydraulic models which are in turn used to analyze the current and future flood risk and vulnerability of communities. Austin and his colleagues are also skilled in making determinations as to the effectiveness of proposed water resources projects. It is Austin's excellent professional and technical skills that have afforded him the opportunity to serve as Region 4's Program Manager for our current work as part of the Louisiana Watershed Initiative, the topic of our podcast this season.
Join the Champions and our industry experts as they dive into Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC)—a database system that allows a standard power access point (AP) to operate both indoors and outdoors in parts of the 6 GHz frequency band that are not used by license holders at their location. In this podcast, you'll learn how an AP sends a frequency availability request using the format outlined in the Wi-Fi Alliance AFC device to system interface, and the AFC responds with a list of standard power channels that can be used by the APs. Cisco Champion Hosts Gert-Jan de Boer (twitter.com/gjdeboer), aaZoo Network Solutions, Network and Security Specialist Sam Clements (twitter.com/samuel_clements), Presidio, Engineering Director, Office of the CTO, Mobility Sijbren Beukenkamp (twitter.com/sijbrenb), 3Corners, Director/ Owner Guests Matt MacPherson, Cisco, Sr. Director, CTO Wireless Christopher Szymanski, Broadcom, Director, Product Marketing Moderator Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program
In this week's episode, I am joined by Dr. Christopher Nguyen. We talk about the emerging concept of "human first AI," and the changing terrain of both AI ethics, and AI development. We imagine what a human-first approach to AI might look like, and what gets in the way of developing an ethical approach to AI in the tech industry. Christopher Nguyen's career spans four decades, and he has become an industry leader in the field of Engineering broadly, and AI specifically. Since fleeing Vietnam in 1978, he has founded multiple tech companies and has played key roles in everything from building the first flash memory transistors at Intel to spearheading the development of Google Apps as its first Engineering Director. As a professor, Christopher co-founded the Computer Engineering program at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, or HKUST. He earned his Bachelor of Science. degree from the University of California-Berkeley, summa cum lauday, and a PhD. from Stanford University. Today, he's become an outspoken proponent of the emerging field of “AI Engineering” and a thought leader in the space of ethical, human-centric AI. With his latest company, Aitomatic, he's hoping to redefine how companies approach AI in the context of life-critical, industrial applications.
Kelly Vaughn joins the show to talk about her origin story, from learning html in neopets to doing freelancing, and eventually founding her own agency. More recently, Kelly has shifted to work as an Engineering Manager and now Engineering Director at Spot AI.We discuss how you have different levels of scope and responsibility depending on the size of the company you're working at and how changing the size of company you work at can be beneficial to your career and mental health. We dive into Kelly's love of reading and all the secrets she hides on her kindle
"At this very moment, millions of people around the world are working hard to bring to life. A handful of these ideas will turn out to be stunning successes and will have a major impact on the world and culture. The next polio vaccine, the next Google, the next Harry Potter. Others will become smaller, more personal, but no less meaningful successes...Most people believe that they either are or will be in the first group—the group whose ideas will be successful. All they have to do is work hard and execute well. Unfortunately, we know that this cannot be the case. Most new products, services, businesses, and initiatives will fail soon after they are launched—regardless of how promising they sound, how much their developers commit to them, or how well they execute them. This is a hard fact to accept. We believe that other people fail, because they don't know what they are doing…just as I had reached new heights of confidence and hubris, the Beast of Failure wrapped its tentacles around me and bit me in the ass…I could lick my wounds or bite back. I decided to bite back. Failure became my nemesis. Defeating it, my obsession. Teaching others how to defeat it, my mission.”– The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours SucceedAlberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army.www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
Alberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army."At this very moment, millions of people around the world are working hard to bring to life. A handful of these ideas will turn out to be stunning successes and will have a major impact on the world and culture. The next polio vaccine, the next Google, the next Harry Potter. Others will become smaller, more personal, but no less meaningful successes...Most people believe that they either are or will be in the first group—the group whose ideas will be successful. All they have to do is work hard and execute well. Unfortunately, we know that this cannot be the case. Most new products, services, businesses, and initiatives will fail soon after they are launched—regardless of how promising they sound, how much their developers commit to them, or how well they execute them. This is a hard fact to accept. We believe that other people fail, because they don't know what they are doing…just as I had reached new heights of confidence and hubris, the Beast of Failure wrapped its tentacles around me and bit me in the ass…I could lick my wounds or bite back. I decided to bite back. Failure became my nemesis. Defeating it, my obsession. Teaching others how to defeat it, my mission.”– The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeedwww.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
Our expert hosts, David M. Brear, is joined by some great guests to ask: "What would happen to financial services if we put the engineers in charge?" The whole fintech industry is built on top of complex tech stacks, constructed and maintained by engineers. Their value to the industry has never been in doubt, but where they sit in the business structure changes from company to company. We've put together a panel of experts to discuss how the role of engineers has changed in financial services, the challenges they have to contend with, and what the future of financial services would look like if we put the engineers in charge. This week's guests include: Nick Stemp, Engineering Director, 11:FS Johannes Schaback, CTO, SumUp Simon Vans-Colina, CTO, BigPay Elizabeth Prendergast, Engineering Team Lead, Yapily Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It's hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David M. Brear, Ross Gallagher, Benjamin Ensor, and Kate Moody - as well as a range of brilliant guests. We cover the latest global news, bring you interviews from industry experts or take a deep dive into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Send us your questions for the Fintech Insider Mailbag here (https://11fscompany.typeform.com/to/kBMan5qL?typeform-source=t.co) Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Special Guests: Elizabeth Prendergast, Johannes Schaback, Nick Stemp, and Simon Vans-Colina.
"I live in a community. It's about 170 homes, and we're all neighbors. We have a shared mailing list. And so I'm a big fan of this small experiment. You know if I need a 30-foot ladder to inspect my roof. I'm not going to go buy it to use it once. We have this circular economy and sharing. If I make too much food, I just post it and ask my neighbors, Hey, is anybody interested in this? So I think that on a small scale, I see it happening much more.I'm lucky I work in a community where I've known my neighbors for a long time, but I can see why it would be more difficult in big cities or in places where people do not communicate. So how do you create these communities? Because once the community exists, it's just like a tool. Once you have the community, these behaviors actually happen naturally. And if you look at how human beings evolve as tribes, when there's a small number of people, there's much more sharing. And people are much more careful with their actions. They want to share because then they can share back. So that is why I think the importance of doing things in a small experiment and then think, Okay, how do we scale it up in a large way? But you also have to start small and see if you can actually export it.”Alberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army.www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
Alberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army."I live in a community. It's about 170 homes, and we're all neighbors. We have a shared mailing list. And so I'm a big fan of this small experiment. You know if I need a 30-foot ladder to inspect my roof. I'm not going to go buy it to use it once. We have this circular economy and sharing. If I make too much food, I just post it and ask my neighbors, Hey, is anybody interested in this? So I think that on a small scale, I see it happening much more.I'm lucky I work in a community where I've known my neighbors for a long time, but I can see why it would be more difficult in big cities or in places where people do not communicate. So how do you create these communities? Because once the community exists, it's just like a tool. Once you have the community, these behaviors actually happen naturally. And if you look at how human beings evolve as tribes, when there's a small number of people, there's much more sharing. And people are much more careful with their actions. They want to share because then they can share back. So that is why I think the importance of doing things in a small experiment and then think, Okay, how do we scale it up in a large way? But you also have to start small and see if you can actually export it.”www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
"At this very moment, millions of people around the world are working hard to bring to life. A handful of these ideas will turn out to be stunning successes and will have a major impact on the world and culture. The next polio vaccine, the next Google, the next Harry Potter. Others will become smaller, more personal, but no less meaningful successes...Most people believe that they either are or will be in the first group—the group whose ideas will be successful. All they have to do is work hard and execute well. Unfortunately, we know that this cannot be the case. Most new products, services, businesses, and initiatives will fail soon after they are launched—regardless of how promising they sound, how much their developers commit to them, or how well they execute them. This is a hard fact to accept. We believe that other people fail, because they don't know what they are doing…just as I had reached new heights of confidence and hubris, the Beast of Failure wrapped its tentacles around me and bit me in the ass…I could lick my wounds or bite back. I decided to bite back. Failure became my nemesis. Defeating it, my obsession. Teaching others how to defeat it, my mission.”– The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours SucceedAlberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army.www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
Alberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army."I live in a community. It's about 170 homes, and we're all neighbors. We have a shared mailing list. And so I'm a big fan of this small experiment. You know if I need a 30-foot ladder to inspect my roof. I'm not going to go buy it to use it once. We have this circular economy and sharing. If I make too much food, I just post it and ask my neighbors, Hey, is anybody interested in this? So I think that on a small scale, I see it happening much more.I'm lucky I work in a community where I've known my neighbors for a long time, but I can see why it would be more difficult in big cities or in places where people do not communicate. So how do you create these communities? Because once the community exists, it's just like a tool. Once you have the community, these behaviors actually happen naturally. And if you look at how human beings evolve as tribes, when there's a small number of people, there's much more sharing. And people are much more careful with their actions. They want to share because then they can share back. So that is why I think the importance of doing things in a small experiment and then think, Okay, how do we scale it up in a large way? But you also have to start small and see if you can actually export it.”www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
"I live in a community. It's about 170 homes, and we're all neighbors. We have a shared mailing list. And so I'm a big fan of this small experiment. You know if I need a 30-foot ladder to inspect my roof. I'm not going to go buy it to use it once. We have this circular economy and sharing. If I make too much food, I just post it and ask my neighbors, Hey, is anybody interested in this? So I think that on a small scale, I see it happening much more.I'm lucky I work in a community where I've known my neighbors for a long time, but I can see why it would be more difficult in big cities or in places where people do not communicate. So how do you create these communities? Because once the community exists, it's just like a tool. Once you have the community, these behaviors actually happen naturally. And if you look at how human beings evolve as tribes, when there's a small number of people, there's much more sharing. And people are much more careful with their actions. They want to share because then they can share back. So that is why I think the importance of doing things in a small experiment and then think, Okay, how do we scale it up in a large way? But you also have to start small and see if you can actually export it.”Alberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army.www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
“So, as much as I would love to take the credit, Google Ads was a big team, and I was fortunate to be brought in as a director that managed the team. And I would also like to say the idea of attaching ads to searches, anybody could have had it. In fact, it was the most obvious thing. Just like on television, if you watch a car race, then it makes sense to have ads about cars. So I think the reason it was so successful is because innovations and new ideas, they compound. They build one upon the other. So the reason why ads was so successful for Google is because search was so successful for Google. So when you have search and you have billions of people coming in every day, maybe every hour, and searching all kinds of things, you have this treasure trove of data. And more importantly, guess what? If you have billion searches per day, you know how many experiments can you run? Countless, right? And so Google is very famous for doing a lot of A/B experiments. That's how we collect the data. You think, if we make the ads, let's say short and long, they will be more effective than if we make them, tall and long.Well, how do we know which one will work better? You can do a lot of experiments. So what actually enabled Google to be so successful and to grow is this mental attitude, which by the way, is the same one that Amazon and some of these really successful technology companies have, of doing a lot of experiments on small samples and continually refining their data based on that.If you're dealing with a lot of people, you can do those experiments and that's why these companies are successful. The sad thing or what happens with companies that do not operate in that way, that do not try to operate on data and do all of those experiments, those are the ones that are left behind. Innovation is experimentation."Alberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army.www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
The Creative Process in 10 minutes or less · Arts, Culture & Society
"At this very moment, millions of people around the world are working hard to bring to life. A handful of these ideas will turn out to be stunning successes and will have a major impact on the world and culture. The next polio vaccine, the next Google, the next Harry Potter. Others will become smaller, more personal, but no less meaningful successes...Most people believe that they either are or will be in the first group—the group whose ideas will be successful. All they have to do is work hard and execute well. Unfortunately, we know that this cannot be the case. Most new products, services, businesses, and initiatives will fail soon after they are launched—regardless of how promising they sound, how much their developers commit to them, or how well they execute them. This is a hard fact to accept. We believe that other people fail, because they don't know what they are doing…just as I had reached new heights of confidence and hubris, the Beast of Failure wrapped its tentacles around me and bit me in the ass…I could lick my wounds or bite back. I decided to bite back. Failure became my nemesis. Defeating it, my obsession. Teaching others how to defeat it, my mission.”– The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours SucceedAlberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army.www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
Alberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army.“So, as much as I would love to take the credit, Google Ads was a big team, and I was fortunate to be brought in as a director that managed the team. And I would also like to say the idea of attaching ads to searches, anybody could have had it. In fact, it was the most obvious thing. Just like on television, if you watch a car race, then it makes sense to have ads about cars. So I think the reason it was so successful is because innovations and new ideas, they compound. They build one upon the other. So the reason why ads was so successful for Google is because search was so successful for Google. So when you have search and you have billions of people coming in every day, maybe every hour, and searching all kinds of things, you have this treasure trove of data. And more importantly, guess what? If you have billion searches per day, you know how many experiments can you run? Countless, right? And so Google is very famous for doing a lot of A/B experiments. That's how we collect the data. You think, if we make the ads, let's say short and long, they will be more effective than if we make them, tall and long.Well, how do we know which one will work better? You can do a lot of experiments. So what actually enabled Google to be so successful and to grow is this mental attitude, which by the way, is the same one that Amazon and some of these really successful technology companies have, of doing a lot of experiments on small samples and continually refining their data based on that.If you're dealing with a lot of people, you can do those experiments and that's why these companies are successful. The sad thing or what happens with companies that do not operate in that way, that do not try to operate on data and do all of those experiments, those are the ones that are left behind. Innovation is experimentation."www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
“So, as much as I would love to take the credit, Google Ads was a big team, and I was fortunate to be brought in as a director that managed the team. And I would also like to say the idea of attaching ads to searches, anybody could have had it. In fact, it was the most obvious thing. Just like on television, if you watch a car race, then it makes sense to have ads about cars. So I think the reason it was so successful is because innovations and new ideas, they compound. They build one upon the other. So the reason why ads was so successful for Google is because search was so successful for Google. So when you have search and you have billions of people coming in every day, maybe every hour, and searching all kinds of things, you have this treasure trove of data. And more importantly, guess what? If you have billion searches per day, you know how many experiments can you run? Countless, right? And so Google is very famous for doing a lot of A/B experiments. That's how we collect the data. You think, if we make the ads, let's say short and long, they will be more effective than if we make them, tall and long.Well, how do we know which one will work better? You can do a lot of experiments. So what actually enabled Google to be so successful and to grow is this mental attitude, which by the way, is the same one that Amazon and some of these really successful technology companies have, of doing a lot of experiments on small samples and continually refining their data based on that.If you're dealing with a lot of people, you can do those experiments and that's why these companies are successful. The sad thing or what happens with companies that do not operate in that way, that do not try to operate on data and do all of those experiments, those are the ones that are left behind. Innovation is experimentation."Alberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army.www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
Alberto Savoia was Google's first engineering director and is currently Innovation Agitator Emeritus, where, among other things, he led the development and launch of the original Google AdWords. He is the author of The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed, a book that provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, and gives insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.He is a successful serial entrepreneur, angel-investor and an expert practitioner in pretotyping and lean innovation. He is based in Silicon Valley where he teaches his uniquely effective approach to innovation at Google, Stanford. He has also taught and coached many Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, McDonald's, and Walmart, as well as the US Army.“So, as much as I would love to take the credit, Google Ads was a big team, and I was fortunate to be brought in as a director that managed the team. And I would also like to say the idea of attaching ads to searches, anybody could have had it. In fact, it was the most obvious thing. Just like on television, if you watch a car race, then it makes sense to have ads about cars. So I think the reason it was so successful is because innovations and new ideas, they compound. They build one upon the other. So the reason why ads was so successful for Google is because search was so successful for Google. So when you have search and you have billions of people coming in every day, maybe every hour, and searching all kinds of things, you have this treasure trove of data. And more importantly, guess what? If you have billion searches per day, you know how many experiments can you run? Countless, right? And so Google is very famous for doing a lot of A/B experiments. That's how we collect the data. You think, if we make the ads, let's say short and long, they will be more effective than if we make them, tall and long.Well, how do we know which one will work better? You can do a lot of experiments. So what actually enabled Google to be so successful and to grow is this mental attitude, which by the way, is the same one that Amazon and some of these really successful technology companies have, of doing a lot of experiments on small samples and continually refining their data based on that.If you're dealing with a lot of people, you can do those experiments and that's why these companies are successful. The sad thing or what happens with companies that do not operate in that way, that do not try to operate on data and do all of those experiments, those are the ones that are left behind. Innovation is experimentation."www.albertosavoia.com https://harperone.com/9780062884671/the-right-itwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast
In a collaborative discussion, Joe Mazzella and Tom Hayden of Engineering Director, Inc. (EDI) join Enbridge's Keith Parker to discuss the group's engineered, integrated approach to external corrosion management (IECM). Topics explored on the IECM-themed podcast include the roles of machine learning, data governance, and the importance of building an observable system. More information on their work is available in recent technical articles of Materials Performance (MP) Magazine, and they will be delivering a symposium on the topic on March 22, 2023 at the AMPP Annual Conference + Expo in Denver, Colorado, USA.
This was a fantastic session with a good friend of mine Francois Aucoin who is the Engineering Director for Evapco LMP. We had a great conversation on how they build and design CO2 system. Francois shared with us some tips, tricks and thing you want to look for when working on a CO2 system. Topics Discussed: Things you need to look out for when servicing a CO2 system Evapco LMPs CO2 commercial and industrial system designs How their Mechanical Depressurization oil system works Why it is important to know how the PID, electrical and controls diagrams work. Understand how each component works and reacts with one another is very important when servicing a CO2 system Steps you should take when you are troubleshooting a CO2 system Proper installation procedures, deep evacuation, proper CO2 charging steps and checking all the How Evapco LMP designs their Hot Gas Defrost System for both High and Low pressure defrosts Looping system vs Home Run circuits Patent Heat Reclaim on Purity+ which is taking heat from before and after the Gas Cooler Evapco LMP – https://evapcolmp.ca/en/ ================================================ Would you like to become a top refrigeration professional at your organization check out these upcoming programs at Refrigeration Mentor Events All Access to Refrigeration Mentor Content: Learn More Upcoming Compressor Masterclass: Learn More Upcoming Supermarket Learning Program: Learn More Upcoming CO2 Learning Program: Learn More Free System & Compressor Troubleshooting Guide Subscribe to the Refrigeration Mentors video newsletter and get your Free Compressor Guide Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/refrigerationmentor Connect with the Refrigeration Mentor IG: @RefrigerationMentor
Joining Saron today is Matt Newkirk, Engineering Director at Etsy. Matt talks about his coding journey, his current role at Etsy, leadership tips and advice for people on their coding journey. Matt's found a career in paying forward the help he received along the way, starting as a volunteer MUD developer and finding a path to becoming a director of engineering at Etsy. His engineering efforts cover Quality Engineering, Infrastructure and Operations, with the most value coming from finding improved collaboration across teams. Show Links Turing (sponsor) Microsoft (sponsor) Stellar (sponsor) Peer One-on-Ones LPC APIs Fullstack Asynchronous Calls PHP JavaScript C A+ CI System (continuous integration) Observability Tools Unit Tests AWS Selenium VoIP Telnet Multi User Dungeon (MUD) Apple 2C
In this episode, Steve Randall speaks to Sam Whitworth and Maddie Podstada of Stelling Properties Limited. Steve was also given a tour around the Stelling Properties factory and himself and Pete the Builder discuss modular construction.If you have an interest in modular construction or you want to hear how it is being used to aid civilians fleeing the conflict in Ukraine then this episode is for you!Sam Whitworth is the Engineering Director for Stelling Properties. Sam's portfolio consists of working in the Marina, Aerospace and Civil Sectors. Sam is committed to the development and delivery of new technology and products. He also enjoys being challenged and works well under pressure.“We exist to take on the challenge of bringing modular to the mainstream and giving people the choice that they deserve as a customer.”“Interface is key in the modular industry.”Stelling Properties are one of the UK's leading modular development and construction companies. They traditionally focus on student accommodation, residential developments, and hotels.Today however they are using their expertise to help civilians fleeing the conflict in Ukraine.Stelling Properties are now designing and building transportable accommodation inside shipping containers to aid in housing civilians living in dangerous and freezing conditions in refugee camps in Europe.The carefully designed and insulated units can provide shelter for up to two adults and two children or three adults at a time. They provide them with space to sleep and eat.Known as Project Re: Haus, this venture is staff-led and is a separate charitable initiative started by the team just days after the news of the war broke around the world.Maddie Podstada is the Project Coordinator for Project Re: Haus. A future charitable organisation that is designed to be a solution for those displaced by conflict, war, and natural emergencies.Maddie believes that the speed of modular is what makes it suitable for a crisis. A modular can be built, transported and then be ready for use within two hours.Visibly emotional when the first containers were transported, Maddie and her team are very proud of the hard work and long hours that they put in to help families fleeing from their countries.If you wish to help Maddie and her team with their admirable project you can make a donation at www.rehaus.org.“The modules are produced and then transported to Poland and can be ready to be used in about two hours, so they call it plug and play.”“Modular construction is a fantastic solution to be relocated from one location to another.”