Quick Reads (Under 5 Minutes)

If a team relies on individual heroics for success or failure the team is a failure.

When a relevant group of people get together to solve a specific problem - don’t call it a meeting because we all know meetings suck.

Send off with best wishes from the CEO, COO, CMO, my stakeholders, and coworkers. I will miss Simon & Schuster. All respect to you.

This week ends six years of building and problem solving with a great team at Simon & Schuster. Next week I start my new job…

Just wrapped up another RailsBridge NYC. My third as a teacher/ta volunteer. Congrats Rachel Ober

At the RailsBridge NYC teacher/ta training for the May workshop.

Learned to troubleshoot cross-origin resource sharing with a proxy server so you can see the actual raw requests and responses.

If you use a ‘fake’ email address online make sure it doesn’t actually belong to someone or you are giving that person access to your info.

Commonly used solutions to solved problems trumps ingenuity any day.

Just did my first apple pay purchase. Card tokenization is a good thing. Ask anyone accountable for an Ecommerce system.

Defying expectations, end users are content with a legacy system. Another presumed “must have” for new system deferred/descoped. Cool.

There are many constraints that make user, dev, product team collaboration difficult. But the main impediment is leadership.