Sup-a-Dillie-O: Recent Episodes
Sean Patterson
…which loosely translated is “Warmest greetings to you friend!”
I'm Sean, and I've been keeping a blog for some time now about coding, life, and random things. I've been a bit of a Podcast junkie too, so here's an experiment with creating audio versions of my blog posts thanks to Anchor. Let's see what happens and thanks for letting me bend your ear!
As I continue to enjoy my time relaxing, recharging, and rebooting during my sabbatical, I came across some wise words by a wizard named Ged about keeping balance in our life...
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2021/10/12/being-and-doing/
Today I mark off an item in my bucket list: I’m taking a one month sabbatical! This caps 10 years working at Fresh Consulting and also making it through a particularly rough year. I have three simple goals for this: relax, recharge, and reboot.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/relax-recharge-reboot/
As I’ve continued to grow as a leader and mentor over this past year, there’s one phrase that surfaced over and over that has taken some effort to comprehend the impact of: “What you permit, you promote…”
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2019/12/26/thoughts-on-leadership-what-you-permit-you-promote/
Finding somebody new can be a really tricky process. Recently I’ve been through a wave of interviews with various candidate, and I have a renewed respect for recruiters and HR personnel that handle this process on a day to day basis. How can you evaluate skill, character, fit, and so much more in such a short time span? Here is what I’ve started applying to my own evaluations.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2019/02/22/leadership-finding-somebody-new/
While working on Project Moab, we encountered a really interesting, and nuanced problem that led us to expand our thinking and ultimately guide how multiple parts of the system operated. It also gave us a fun tool that I’m applying to other projects as well: Elvis, Bean, and Hedy.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2021/06/01/know-your-user-elvis-bean-hedy/
So here we are, a brand new year and I thought I’d go off on a tangent and see if I can shock and amaze folks with a few things you may not know about me…
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/five-random-and-semi-famous-things-you-may-not-know-about-me/
I've been doing a lot of thinking now specifically asking myself, What does leadership look like? What does it mean to be a leader? I still don't have a ton of answers, but I have a few thoughts and something I'm doing more consistently now.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/leadership-thoughts-and-a-tip/
Sometime around now, some 20 years back, I had my first gig as a "professional" coder. A friend of mine put me in contact with somebody who wanted to allow those that had coding certifications (like a Microsoft MVP) to build a basic profile, upload the all important “badge” image they received, and have a nice looking single page “resume” to share and connect. Maybe I built the first LinkedIn, but I won’t necessarily claim that [:: smiles ::]. However, I did learn the most important lesson that sticks with me today. It has also been a wild ride in software…
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/20-years-of-code/