Opinions and Writings
Re-education
While not many publicly know, I am no longer with any of my previous affiliations. I thought finally pursuing game development to continue my career would be one of my last churns and that I'd be able to stick around doing it for long. Turned out my stint became more...
Goodbye for now, Ma’am May
Paying tribute to friends and mentors who have passed never gets easier and yet I write another one now. I am greatly saddened by the passing of one of my mentors - Prof. May Flores. She passed on last Saturday after years of health problems. She will most likely be...
Hello, IT department…
Ah... The IT department where the verisimilitude of the IT Crowd hits home so well. Just read Tales from Tech Support on Reddit. But the inverse also applies. Howe many of us has been screwed over by bad IT departments. I've been with startups and small organizations...
Cambio
It's been three months since I've said my token goodbyes to some very good friends from my old work. I've finally quit the old job after spending nearly a decade associated with them. It seems like I'm well on my way dissociating myself from education too. It's been...
Aftermath
Nagising ako kahapon ng madaling araw. Tiningnan ko ang telepono at nakitang umaapaw ang Facebook at Twitter ng notifications. Puno ng posts at tweets mula sa mga kaibigan at dating propesor. Nasusunog ang Faculty Center at mukhang malubha. Tila matutupok at magiging...
Psychological safety
Google shared "The five keys to a successful Google team." I love reading these kinds of secret sauce that they claim make such organizations successful. Now, what's supposed to be done with these kinds of information is to process them, reflect, see what may apply to...
Failing critical discourse
All that noise about Pacquiao probably wouldn't die soon. Too bad in the midst of all of this, a lot is happening beyond a boxer's unenlightened comments and the hate it stirred. In my circle of literary people, here's what has happened just in the past couple of...
Bahala na
Any manager who doesn't have a clear objective (or fail to communicate one) is destined for disappointment. It is critical to have a mutual understanding of expectations between team members when dealing with tasks. Some so-called managers don't even bother providing...
Attack ka muna
We, old foggies, were transferred out to new assignments. That left some leadership void that (we are glad) our best people filled in. (I'd write about the Peter Principle some other time.) While part of letting your wards blossom is giving them space, we're still...