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Alexander: The Contract I’m Making With You
I’m here early on a Sunday morning watching you train, after you woke up early, woke me up and stood at the door waiting to go. I have time so I wanted to capture a series of thoughts while they were present in my mind. A father’s note to my son, a guide to myself,…
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Start with something physical
What are the most important things needed to live a good life? [1] A daily physical practice, where you can get moving without having to think. I start everyday with the same warm-up routine for 2-10 minutes that flosses out the body. [2] Don’t make everything about you. Get other people paid. [3] Have the…
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Simple
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life. Watching my kids care for each other.
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Training: Reflections at 50, Background and Goals for 50-55
Introduction I’m a 50 year old (as of June 2023) masters/veteran judo competitor that also likes to coach wrestling and grappling. I have four kids (1 college, 1 high school, 1 middle school, 1 elementary), they all fence or wrestle and I work full-time as an investor/advisor/CXO. I tend to think about personal/financial/goal planning relative…
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Nostalgia and my nascent views about what is now called cloud computing
In 2004 I had finally edited down everything that I wanted from my infrastructure into a single sentence and then reused this phrase in a lot of the proposals during the early years of Joyent. I simply wanted to run applications well and keep data well. And needed A highly available, redundant and modular setup…
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On Cascading Failures and Amazon’s Elastic Block Store
This post is one in a series discussing storage architectures in the cloud. Read Network Storage in the Cloud: Delicious but Deadly and Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us for more insight. Resilient, adjective, /riˈzilyənt/ “Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions”. In patients with a cough, you know what commonly causes…
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Facebook’s Open Compute: The Data Center is the New Server and the Rise of the Taiwanese Tigers
Today Facebook took the great step of openly talking about their server and datacenter designs at the level of detail where they can actually be replicated by others. Another reason why I call it “great?” Well, it’s interesting that the sourcing and design of these was done by Facebook and with Taiwanese component makers. Nothing…
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On Bruno’s Concern About the Current Coupling of node.js and V8
Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz (Yahoo! Fellow, VP and Platform Architect) wrote about his concerns around the current tight coupling between node.js and V8. Feel free to take a moment and read the original article: “NodeJS: To V8 or not to V8”. A reply doesn’t fit into a twitter response, and an update mentioning my reply would be…