@schmonz to my business associates, but you can call me Amitai Schleier.

The Facts

Listen to the gossip.

[he/they]
Force multiplier.
Outcome improver.
Decision sharer.
Developer, leader, coach.
agilein3minut.es podcaster.
Musician.
Bad poet (award-winning).

Shiny is better. ⇄

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@sloanb beautiful!
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@sloanb outstanding! What's the job and how do they make it so?
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How often is it fun to do your job?

https://agilein3minut.es/13
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When you can do whatever you want, what should you want?

https://agilein3minut.es/12
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How was the week for you? Did you do some of your best work?

When *do* you do your best work?

https://agilein3minut.es/11
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If working in pairs means getting half as much done, why is anyone still doing it?

https://agilein3minut.es/9
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Office half-hour today. Starts in one hour (that'll be 12:15pm US/Eastern). Drop in and join the conversation.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89405675221?pwd=WHRueXFFbzZoaUsyTkxFV3hrOWpvQT09
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If you could only do one Agile practice: Retrospect.

If you could only listen to one Agile in 3 Minutes: This one.
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How can others tell what matters to you?

https://agilein3minut.es/8

This one is very dear to me. None of these are only about work, but especially this one. You and I will change the world.
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Advisory: local printer denial of service. Service back to normal upon discovery and removal of scale-model automobile.
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[unpleasantly semi-relevant this week]

We're not operating heavy equipment, we're sitting in climate-controlled offices thinking, talking, and typing. What's there to be afraid of?

https://agilein3minut.es/7
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Last week I rediscovered a messy directory last touched four years ago. I had been spiking something. But what?

Watch me move from confusion, to awareness, to planning. Less than 30 minutes.

https://youtu.be/SWDnrSHeT3s
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Baba [face to face with F]: How are you, F?

F: I’m here, Baba.
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Today's stream wasn't fun to do. Can't imagine it being fun to watch. But by the end, all the warnings in our soon-to-be dependency were fixed. https://youtu.be/z2Vz19U13Gk?si=ECnZX0ObpEY8OaCo
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For all children in the set of my children, there exists some threshold acceleration a, at or above which swinging is necessarily accompanied by freely improvised singing, below which the singing necessarily ceases.
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Q1. What was happening for (and around) you when you first realized that your code is gonna need to communicate with humans?

Q2. What were your first best ideas for how to make it do that (or how to learn to make it do that)?
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Every programmer has some level of understanding of the current state of their code.

What are your favorite ways to get some level of understanding on the current state of your understanding?
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Start your week off right with "Wrong", the fifth and possibly most important (I love all my children equally) episode of Agile in 3 Minutes.

What’s the nicest way to find out you’re wrong?

https://agilein3minut.es/5
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Another quick, unscheduled programming video: "exim RCE, is my SMTP AUTH code safe?"

I don't run exim, but when the universe suggests that it's a good time to inspect my own code, I try to accept.

https://youtu.be/khdk9pu1IBo
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What's it like to write a shell script? Here's a tiny example: https://youtu.be/x3BS0yL10hA?si=ZoCQyN7P8oK-szjm

Note the higher-than-usual marginal value of refactoring. sh has an especially low comprehensibility floor, so any structure goes a long way.
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