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16Sep 201824 Mar 2021

Software Engineering Leadership

Software Engineer leadership is where you lead/manage a number of software engineers, directly or via another manager(s). Your title could…

19Mar 20182 Dec 2018

Leadership by Example

This blog post is a continuation from a previous one called Leading Leaders “We must be the change we wish…

21Jan 201819 Mar 2019

Leading leaders

Maybe you are a Director, a Head of X or a Vice President, and you now own a department or…

Eric Brooke Strength Finders Feb 2018

12 Feb 20182 Dec 2018

So as part of a team building exercise I redid my Strength Finders 2.0. It had changed. Here is my previous one Whilst three strengths were the same (in bold),…

Communcation…

Leading leaders

21 Jan 201819 Mar 2019

Maybe you are a Director, a Head of X or a Vice President, and you now own a department or multiple teams. Moving from a front line leader i.e managing Individual…

Acting

Learning Improv at Second City

3 Jan 20182 Dec 2018

This is a post about what I learned from Improv at Second City and my journey. In August 2017, I signed up to Secondcity’s Improv Express Level 1. I have…

Games

Comparison of tabletop roleplaying games (RPG)

10 Nov 201723 Feb 2020

Not all RPGs are the same.. There are different themes, different play styles, different universes and different mechanics (how to calculate how I grow as a character, fight, solve, etc).…

Games

Running your first RPG gaming session/campaign

2 Nov 20176 Sep 2020

Whether you are a Dungeon Master (DM), Game Master (GM), Keeper of Arcane Lore (Keeper) or a Story Teller, creating a new world/universe with a group of friends, through Roleplaying…

Why games are good for you – Board, RPG and War

31 Oct 20173 Dec 2018

Without a doubt I love playing games. They grow my skills, they help me evolve as a human and they can even be fun. "You learn more about a person…

First Job in the USA

2 Oct 20173 Dec 2018

Here is a presentation that I presented to some of my colleagues at Enova about what it was like to move to the USA. The Journey of an immigrant from…

Games

GenCon 2017

28 Aug 20173 Dec 2018

GenCon is a gaming convention where 60,000 people appear in Indianapolis, Indiana, US to play board games, participate in role-play games, show off cos-play and many other types of fun, each…

Software Development…

Apple Worldwide Developers Confrence #WWDC17 #YearOfTheEngineer

9 Jun 20173 Dec 2018

Each year Apple holds a Developers conference called Apple Worldwide Developers Confrence or for short WWDC. It is a great place to learn and talk about Mac OS, iPhone Apps,…

growth

Moving to US from Canada

1 Jan 201616 Jan 2018

Lets assume you get offered a job in the US and you live in Canada. You are a Canadian. This was my setup. I writing this to help other avoid…