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This article expands on one section of my talk What Lies Between: The Challenges of Operationalising Microservices from QCon London 2019. Over the past few years, observability has become a prominent topic in distributed computing. Observability means different things to different people and the use of the term is still

A platform offering can provide SaaS providers with a way to expand their reach and generate new revenue streams. We examine what is required and business considerations.

DevOps companies are in the business of observability. The sooner they realize that, the better. Observability has come to mean more than just logs, metrics, and traces. It has encompassed the entire lifecycle of system management – from alerting on anomalous data to securing endpoints. Observability helps businesses manage their software. What does that have to do with DevOps? At a high level, DevOps products sit in the software development lifecycle – from development, to CI, to deployment.

A look at HashiCorp's product line as it IPOs, and how it's entering Zero Trust.

None of these six ways is enough alone to create a long-term revolution of the human mind — a fundamental shift in our perception of time. But together — and when practised by a critical mass of people and organisations — a new age of long-term thinking could emerge out of their synergy.

Books that bring out the secrets hidden in other books—an investigation into René Girard

A 12-Minute Summary of “Start With Why” by Simon Sinek

Perceptual exposure is the rare learning technique that allows you to learn tacit knowledge — that is, knowledge that can't be communicated. And it begins with a simple question: how do you tell if a chick is male or female?

Technique summary of Ray Dalio's Believability.

A summary of the conclusions from my Putting Mental Models to Practice series. What are mental models? How did mental models become so popular?

FIRE — 'financial independence, retire early' is a movement that's taking off amongst millennial knowledge workers. We explore how this relates to career strategy.

Accelerated Expertise is the best book we have on creating accelerated training programs today.

Have you ever tried putting deliberate practice to practice? If you have, it's likely that you'll have noticed just how difficult it is to apply deliberate practice principles to your career. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying; here's why.

Here we try to answer a deceptively simple question: when someone offers advice, how do you evaluate that advice before putting it into practice?

Experts make decisions in ways that are very, very different from conventional decision science models. This makes expertise a lot more important to good decision making than you might think.

Instrumental rationality is the sort of thinking that allows you to achieve your goals. We take a closer look at what decision science says is the 'best' way to pursue this purpose.

Any discussion of practicing mental models must begin with a discussion of rationality. We look at what the research tells us about it.

Last week we covered a model for expertise called recognition-primed decision making. This week, we talk about how to use that model to build expertise of your own.

There are — loosely speaking — two kinds of advancement games you can play in your career. This is a parable about both.

Some careers can be made on the back of a single, wonderful idea. We take a look at what that looks like, through Bill Gurley's VC career.

Your two biggest barriers to achieving your goals: lying to yourself and blind-spots. The cure? Being 'radically open-minded'.

A how-to manual for being effective by Ray Dalio, founder of the most successful hedge fund in the world.

We take a look at how you might turn extracted, tacit expertise into a training program for yourself or others.

A look at Laura Militello and Robert Hutton's Applied Cognitive Task Analysis, a simplified method for getting at the tacit expertise of others.

YouTube is the biggest thing to have happened to tacit skill acquisition in the past couple of decades. Here's how to use it.

There are three types of tacit knowledge, all of which 'cannot be captured through words alone'.

Much of expertise is tacit: that is, it cannot be captured through words alone. We look at techniques, drawn from the field of Naturalistic Decision Making, designed to acquire the tacit knowledge of experts.

The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. It isn't.

What tacit knowledge is, and why it is the most interesting topic in the study of expertise today.