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+title: "Audio Upgrades"
+slug: audio-upgrades
+# date: add date when ready to publish
+draft: true
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+
+## upgrades
+
+With so much complexity involves in returning to offices or going hybrid,
+acoustics may not be front-of-mind for company leadership.
+
+If you're a remote worker, ask your manager about expensing the equipment and software I suggest here.
+
+If you regularly need to be heard and understood in meetings, classes,
+or any other speaking events, you need a dedicated mic.
+
+The [Blue Yeti](https://www.bluemic.com/en-us/products/yeti/)
+has become ubiquitous among tech folks who do regular speaking engagements,
+but you don't need a high-end podcast mic to sound better than the built-in mic on your laptop.
+Even a $20 USB mic will be an improvement over your laptop's mic.
+
+[Krisp.ai](https://krisp.ai) is a service that filters background noise during calls.
+What's especially great is that it works in both directions.

content/drafts/auditory-processing.md

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+title: "Auditory Processing"
+slug: auditory-processing
+# date: add date when ready to publish
+draft: true
+images:
+tags:
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+---
+
+
+I have audio processing issues that I only started learning about in the past few years.
+
+They've actually been causing me issues since childhood,
+but I'd subconsciously accommodate for it:
+watching shows with headphones and/or subtitles,
+choosing quiet places to hang out with friends,
+chatting over text.
+In adulthood, however, I've been finding myself in more situations
+in which I need to listen carefully to what someone is saying
+over moderate background noise I can't control.
+
+It became really noticable in 2019 after my partner and I started dating.
+Trying to have a conversation with him while out walking next to car traffic was impossible.
+I'd also struggle trying to listen to a coworker explain some technical thing
+in an echoey open office with several loud kitchen appliances.
+
+I ended up getting my hearing checked because I was that worried about it.
+Apparently I have excellent hearing 🤷.
+It was a relief, but it wasn't until I learned about auditory processing disorders
+that my struggles made sense.

content/drafts/code-is-like-clay.md

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 Another use of the metaphor is this
 [blog post from 2017](https://www.upbeat.it/programming-languages-and-clay/).
 that uses the clay-hardening metaphor for frameworks
-(note: the post quotes [Robert Martin](),
-someone I don't exactly want to promote).
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+(note: the post quotes someone I don't exactly want to promote).
 
 I also discovered a [startup in Brooklyn called Clay](https://www.clay.run).
 
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 ## Why not let it harden?
 
 Metaphors break down quickly, like a brick that wasn't fired properly 😜
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 Constantly learning.
 
 
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 When we treat out code like clay that we want to stay pliable,
 
 
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 ## Not just code
 
 I was hesitant to use "code" in the metaphor.
 The catchiness of won me over.
 
+But this 100% applies to docs, webpages, videos,
+and any other knowledge that's been captured in a static format.
 
+For publications can't be updated in-place, including dates is critical.
+It would even be a great start if we starting marking documents as stale
+or otherwise highlighted the "last updated" attribute.
 
 ## Hooray for clay
 

content/drafts/prodex.md

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+---
+title: "production excellence"
+slug: production-excellence
+date: 2021-09-26T15:04:01-07:00
+draft: true
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+---
+
+In "Shifting Left on Production Excellence with Observability," our keynote presentation at DevOps Enterprise Summit North America 2021, Liz Fong-Jones and I made an assertion:
+
+> "All teams need production excellence."
+
+I want to talk more about what that looks like.
+
+---
+
+I first learned the term from Liz Fong-Jones' 2019 InfoQ article: ["Sustainable Operations in Complex Systems with Production Excellence"](https://www.infoq.com/articles/production-excellence-sustainable-operations-complex-systems/). This was before I joined Honeycomb—I was working as a DevOps Engineer at a small adtech firm in LA. I was frustrated by things I saw on my team: the low [bus factor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor), which was exascerbated by upper management's resistance to prioritizing knowledge transfer.
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