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Author: Pam Selle

You should quit

You came to me asking if you should quit. But you know the only reason you came to ask me…

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Congratulations on your fake promotion!

FROM: MANAGEMENT TO: YOUR INBOX SUBJECT: Congratulations on your fake promotion to Lead! Cherished employee, We’re so excited to offer…

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Pruning

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Anxiety is not a clean burning fuel

I’m exploring how using anxiety as general purpose fuel for action is not a sustainable strategy. Anxiety is a feeling…

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Raise the money, then give it away: Reflections on a Giving Project

For six months in 2020-2021, I worked with a group of 20 people to raise over $180,000 and give it…

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2021 Year in Review

There were good times and a lot of bad times and really weird times. Sometimes, the bad times led to…

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Fetch the bolt cutters

CW: Mention of suicide My body, rather than my mind, made me stop working in the tech industry, and that…

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Testing a command inside a docker container (or getting an interactive session)

I’ve used Docker but know very few commands (my favorite command being “docker prune”, to clean up images on a…

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Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters (talk notes)

Last month I attended some sessions of Philly ETE, and I took a bunch of notes from this talk and…

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A lot of it is timing: Reflections on a tech job hunt

I really appreciate job hunt posts and I thought I’d share one from my recent search. My favorites in this…

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