Hi, I'm Niall Bunting

Summary

The story of how a Wii Fit and Raspberry Pi board didn’t change my behavior but ignited a desire that I didn’t know I had.

This is the fourth part of this series; the first post is here.

Before the 1970s, there were only a couple of ways to contact someone: physically (by post or simply showing up at their house) or by landline. In the digital age, the options seem endless, with major categories being social networks, communication apps, and workplace instant messaging.

This is the fourth part of this series; the first post is here.

I found a relic, a paper Tate and Lyle coffee bag under a floorboard. That paper bag is older than me, it made me sit down and think about life for a few moments. Digital resources are unlike my coffee bag. Resources only a few years old have a habit of disappearing entirely.

For those who don’t know, Confluence is essentially a private wiki, with areas for different projects and other shared areas. It’s a commonly used tool but doesn’t seem effective at its job of sharing information.

The idea of just in time (JIT) comes from manufacturing, where processes are changed so that parts are manufactured only when needed, reducing unnecessary stock. Can we take these lean ideas of waste reduction and apply them to knowledge?

One of my previous teams would give a five-finger confidence rating after each planning session to see how each team member felt about the plan. Like most times before, the median was a 4. After all, we had brought in the same number of stories as the velocity. Everything sounds good, right?

Many articles I read to research this topic went into minute details about how NPN and PNP transistors are made, but didn’t seem to answer my question: Why should I use one and not the other?