Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Treat ideas like cattle, not pets

Feb 2, 2023

01:09:11

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Episode guests

Daniel Vassallo

Highlights

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Episode notes

The Strategy of Small Achievable Projects

02:03

The Only Constant Is Change

01:44

Small Bets Community

03:46

Is There a Better Way to Deal With the Uncertainty of Life?

02:54

Introduction

4min

The Cost of Optimization

3min

Small Bets - Episode 77 - Serendipity

2min

Is There a Better Way to Deal With the Uncertainty of Life?

3min

I Believe in This So Much That I'm Going to Do Something About It

4min

Investing Your Time

4min

How Do You Know When It's Time to Start a Project?

4min

How Did You Go From a Book to a Cutting Board?

5min

Small Bets Community

4min

10.

What Was It Like to Work at AWS?

5min

11.

The Biggest Opportunity Cost

5min

12.

The Only Constant Thing Is Change

5min

13.

What Is Your Job?

5min

14.

How to Launch a Product on Gumroad?

4min

15.

How Do You Think of 2023?

4min

16.

I've Made Gansa, but It's Vague

2min

17.

What's Your Takeaway From the Conversation?

6min

In our ops & infra world, we learn to optimise for redundancy, for mean time to recovery and for graceful degradation. We instinctively recognise single points of failure, and try to mitigate the risks associated with them.

For some years now, Daniel Vassallo has been doing the same, but in the context of life & work. Daniel talks about the role of randomness, about learning from small wins & about optimising for a lifestyle that matches your true preferences. Apparently, ideas too should be treated like cattle, not pets.

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