The things that you learned to be successful as an engineer are often orthogonal to what you must do to be successful as a manager and influencer of people. here are some examples. Nov. 11, 2018
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Everything you know is wrong: How Computer-Ing While Leading People Will Be Your Enduring Challenge
1. EVERYTHING YOU
KNOW IS WRONG
HOW COMPUTER-ING WHILE LEADING PEOPLE WILL BE YOUR
ENDURING CHALLENGE
JULIE TSAI, INFOSEC PROFESSIONAL
PACIFIC HACKERS CONFERENCE
HACKER DOJO — NOVEMBER 11, 2018
2. T H E E X C E P T I O N S
“The young man knows
the rules but the old man
knows the exceptions.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
3. S H O W D O N ' T T E L L / T E L L Y O U R
S T O R Y
6. PREMATURE OPT. = ROOT ∀ EVIL /
BUILD RELATIONSHIP BEFORE NEEDED
Donald Knuth
7. R E A S O N R U L E S /
D O N ’ T F O R C E L O G I C I N T O E M O T I O N
8. “ I D O N ' T C A R E W H A T Y O U B E L I E V E
I N , J U S T B E L I E V E I N I T . ”
9. C R E D I T S
• Colleagues, challengers, mentors… and family
• The Internet, for the fount of information and images
• David Copperfield omg
• Jack Welch img
• hands jpg
• Donald Knuth
• Euclidean geometry pic
• Serenity pic
Editor's Notes
OSS world and tech:
* Linux & BSD
* Config mgmt tools
* Phones - Apple, Google, Motorola, etc.
—> Security and Privacy *now* being valued after years of being invisible or underestimated
Tell them what you’ll tell them, tell (or show) them, tell them what you told them
—> DevOps/DevOpsSec presos
1885 http://www.mrmediatraining.com/2011/07/14/how-many-times-do-i-have-to-say-the-same-thing/ “Successful Advertising” by Thomas Smith
“The first time people look at any given ad, they don’t even see it.
The second time, they don’t notice it.
The third time, they are aware that it is there.
The fourth time, they have a fleeting sense that they’ve seen it somewhere before.
The fifth time, they actually read the ad.
The sixth time, they thumb their nose at it.
The seventh time, they start to get a little irritated with it.
The eighth time, they start to think, "Here’s that confounded ad again."
The ninth time, they start to wonder if they’re missing out on something.
The tenth time, they ask their friends and neighbors if they’ve tried it.
The eleventh time, they wonder how the company is paying for all these ads.
The twelfth time, they start to think that it must be a good product.
The thirteenth time, they start to feel the product has value.
The fourteenth time, they start to remember wanting a product exactly like this for a long time.
The fifteenth time, they start to yearn for it because they can’t afford to buy it.
The sixteenth time, they accept the fact that they will buy it sometime in the future.
The seventeenth time, they make a note to buy the product.
The eighteenth time, they curse their poverty for not allowing them to buy this terrific product.
The nineteenth time, they count their money very carefully.
The twentieth time prospects see the ad, they buy what is offering.”
Results focus i.e. - many compliance-sec events -> burnout pace, transactionality, bad politics, misunderstanding fundamentals
+ Scalability (automation and processes)
+ Relationships
+ Life - sustainable, renewable pace
bad efficiency allocation - over or under optimized, missing the market
i.e. exploratory or brainstorming meetings
1:1s without agendas
social events
DevOps / DevSecOps etc.
self-interest for scalability
company and competition/promotion outcomes
self-sacrifice for a project, or cause, or war
paraphrase: “companies have dept., domains have specialization, ppl are people.”