Ben always considered himself pretty responsible when it came to money. He had a good chunk of savings, but with rent being raised again this year, he was beginning to feel the squeeze. Simple things like lunch and coffee seemed to have gone up, and he knew for sure his commute was way higher than… [Continue Reading]
I came across an excellent article from the Harvard Business Review entitled How to Mentor a Perfectionist and it made me really think deeply about myself. In particular, I asked myself the question: do I exhibit any of the flaws that come from perfectionism? Psychiatrist David Burns mentions that perfectionism is a “script for self-defeat,” and… [Continue Reading]
Rich was a rock star, and everyone knew it. He walked into work, like he did every day, knowing he’d be contributing something amazing to the team’s project. He always produced the best work and was happy his manager, Antonio, gave him the toughest assignments. Today, however, Antonio asked him to work on putting together a few… [Continue Reading]
I struggled for a while trying to get Google Cloud SQL to proxy properly on Compute Engine. Google has a guide to do this, but I continuously received an error saying mysql_connect(): Can’t connect to remote MySQL server or #2003 Cannot log in to the MySQL server. After a ton of time wasted thinking that… [Continue Reading]
Sally felt terrible. She had been an engineer at the company for three solid years and always performed well. Over the last year, she began to think about her career growth and knew that the next step was to be promoted to a senior position. She had pushed herself so hard to make sure the work… [Continue Reading]
This’ll be a small guide for those of you managing multiple domain names for your site or blog. Say, for example, your domain name is, grandmashirelyshow.com, most likely you’ll also want thegrandmashirelyshow.com, and you might even own the .net and .org version too. Now you have all these domains, but you just have a single blog… [Continue Reading]
Google App Engine seems like a great choice for setting up a WordPress blog, and because I wanted more experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) I gave it a try. My overall assessment, however, is that App Engine isn’t the right choice right now and you’re better of using Compute Engine (or Container Engine) for… [Continue Reading]
Countless times during my early undergrad days, I found myself being too shy to ask questions during class. It hurt me academically, and caused me to have to spend way more time researching things that a simple question to my professor would have answered. What if he already went over that point? I found myself… [Continue Reading]
Fred decided he was fed up working with his team members. If he just did it himself, he wouldn’t have had to go back and make so many corrections. He liked the other guys—honestly, he did—but after all these weeks, they were just starting to annoy him. Teams are just not very effective sometimes, he… [Continue Reading]
I had scheduled a meeting with our then CTO as an intro to help me better network at the company. As I sat in his office—feeling very nervous, mind you—I quickly tried to find a topic that would win him over. We spoke a little about the projects I was working on. Eventually I went into… [Continue Reading]
