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Data Engineer and Enthusiast
Trash TV 🚮📺
Once in a while I enjoy watching trash TV. It helps to turn off your thoughts and stop thinking about what you could do next. I’ll do it right now after a long day - watching people doing stupid things to relax 🤡
Bike 🚲 + Ice 🧊 is a bad Combination
Today I had the brilliant idea of using my bicycle on the way to the office. Combined with treacherous icy conditions it was not the smartest idea. I managed to slip and fall not only once, but even twice until I gave up and walked home slowly and defeated. Luckily, I’m not really injured and just took away some small abrasions on my hand and knee - I think my wax jacket (which has a hole now) helped me to preserve my elbow from bigger abrasions.
Recommendation 📖 Paul Graham
The essays of Paul Graham - known for Y Combinator and Hacker News - are always worth to read. I love that it’s exactly the opposite of what I’m doing (currently): occasionally super detailed essays and always providing value. Just today he published a new one about what he worked on and two paragraphs had me hooked: Startup Stories […] she met friends of mine from the startup world, she was surprised how different reality was.
Garmin GPS sucks sometimes
As I just praised my Garmin watch I also have moments when I hate it. For example 2 days ago I had quite a good run (by far the fastest ~12km lap around my favorite lake) but the GPS was messing the data up. Of course it didn’t harm my running experience in a stunning winter wonderland (with almost no people) itself, but as a Data Enthusiast I hate bad data and bad data quality.
Garmin Body Battery proves when I'm sick
I’m always surprised how good some features of my Garmin watch work. For example the body battery: when I’m feeling sick the body battery is proving it. It’s especially interesting that the pathway of the chart is almost the same if I’m sick (like fever or headache) or if I’m drunk. It proves - obviously - that drinking alcohol is not healthy, and it sometimes helps when the data is telling it straight to your face.
Keeping the Running Spirit
We currently have a cold snap over Europe / Austria which means temperatures below 0° Celsius all day long. Despite having a few days break during the mandatory quarantine last week and the cold temperatures (today it was -8° when I started my 12km run) I continue to go running. I’m happy that it became a habit already and I don’t have to persuade myself every time.
Why are Laptop Webcams so shitty?
Today I had a few calls where we used our webcams to make the sessions a bit more interactive. Some colleagues don’t have a webcam on their laptop (yes, that’s the reality at an IT consulting company in 2021 🤦) and therefore used their phone to join the session. And it was clearly visible that their iamge quality was far superior. Why are laptop webcams so shitty? Not even Apple or similar high-end ultrabooks have a proper quality.
30 consecutive Days
Today marks the 30th consecutive day where I’m publishing a post on the blog (almost at least in case you’re remembering the small hick-up in between 😞). I feel ambivalent about it: I like the result of having an archive of my daily posts and accomplishing something. It is a nice habit and slowly I’m acquiring more readers which helps my motivation. Classical conditioning with positive feedback 🐕. However, I don’t like the burden to do it every day - maybe it would help to eventually set up automation so I can publish something from my phone on the go.
Recommendation 📖 Fred Wilson @ avc.com
Busy day today (started work at 06:30 and still got something to do) but still full of energy as written two days ago. So just a quick reading recommendation today: Fred Wilson - a venture capitalist - is blogging daily at avc.com. He inspired me besides others to try the regular blogging. And he’s also delivering sublime content. I can just cite myself from the last reading recommendation. I’d recommend you to go give him a follow and dig through his blog - huge amount of value to be discovered!
OKR
Did anyone of you work with OKR - Objective and Key Results before? Objectives and key results (OKR) is a goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes. OKRs comprise an objective — a clearly defined goal — and 3–5 key results — specific measures used to track the achievement of that goal. At my company we are currently working on the operationalization of our strategy: how each employee can help us to reach our goals.
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