Getting ready to podcast (Retro #2)

...and some things that hit my radar this week.

Aug 16, 2024

First — thank you to each and every one of you who has subscribed this past week! If you’ve coming across this and haven’t subscribed yet, here’s the button 👇🏻

Now, who is ready to listen to the Full Backlog Podcast?

Hopefully everyone here who enjoys podcasts is! 😅

I’ve been reaching out to a small group of folks who I think would make great guests, and today is the first recording session.

It’s important to me to get at least five long-form interviews “in the can” before I begin promoting who the guests are. This is to make sure that it doesn’t fizzle out after the first one — with other people’s names associated with it!

So, nothing to add to your listening queue just yet, but soon. Subscribers will be the first to know when it launches…

Empathy is critical to working with your colleagues

This week I wrote a post that is really about applied professional empathy:

The three questions I ask every new colleague

Chris Busse

August 13, 2024

The three questions I ask every new colleague

When I begin working with a new colleague, regardless of the work context and whether they are a direct report, a peer, a manager, or a collaborator of any sort that I’ll be working with for some amount of time, there are three questions I ask early in the “getting to know you” phase …

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So a podcast … for auditory learners only?

If you read that post, you’ll see where I actually struggle with listening to podcasts because hearing new information is one of the most challenging ways for me to learn. I am very much a visual and experiential learner.

Trust that I’ll break down the content into transcripts, posts, visuals, etc. so that as many people as possible can get value from it.

Link Roundup

Some things that hit my radar recently:

Event/Tech/Richmond: 2024 RVAtech Code & Cloud Conference https://rvatech.com/rvatech-events/2024-rvatech-code-cloud-conference/

Event/Tech/Stockholm: Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2024 (early-October)

AI/Funding/For good things: Meta Llama 3.1 Impact Grants - Call for Applications

AI/Prompting: Prompt Engineering Guide - Prompting Techniques

AI/Economics/Books: Prediction Machines

AI/Models: GitHub Models

Tech/Explainer/Platform Engineering:

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Bonus

Every morning this week I’ve walked around my garden and taken at least one picture of something that caught my eye. Here’s a Rose of Sharon in bloom:

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