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simpsoka / philosophy.md
Last active April 26, 2026 18:01
simpsoka product philosophy

Product managers

  • Seek out failure, it teaches us to think like a scientist. If you start with a hypothesis, then try to prove yourself wrong, you’re bound to make much better decisions. You have to be willing to fail, and that in itself is going to help you build confidence and be more convicted about what your strategy is in the end.
  • There are hundreds of methods for building products and running teams. As a quality PM, it's important to have an open mind about all of it, but finding your own process and philosophy can be grounding. It helps you find your pillars so that you don't smash into things while you're building. Remember, however, that you can always find a budget for remodeling. 😉
  • The beauty of a good process is when it just becomes how you do your work. When you forget you're following a process at all is when you know the process is working for you, your team, your company, and your customers.
  • The advice I give new Product Managers or PMs coming onto a team for the first
@gtallen1187
gtallen1187 / slope_vs_starting.md
Created November 2, 2015 00:02
A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"

01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140

Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept.

[Laughter]

@lanky
lanky / filemod
Last active August 29, 2015 14:24
- hosts: all
name: test stat output
tasks:
- name: check last change to file
stat:
path: '/etc/fstab'
register: st
- debug:
msg: "File last modified {{ansible_date_time.epoch|int - st.stat.mtime|int }} seconds ago"
@thaJeztah
thaJeztah / docker-examples.md
Last active October 4, 2025 11:26
Some docker examples

Commit, clone a container

To 'clone' a container, you'll have to make an image of that container first, you can do so by "committing" the container. Docker will (by default) pause all processes running in the container during commit to preserve data-consistency.

For example;

docker commit --message="Snapshot of my container" my_container my_container_snapshot:yymmdd
# This gist is compatible with Ansible 1.x .
# For Ansible 2.x , please check out:
# - https://gist.github.com/dmsimard/cd706de198c85a8255f6
# - https://github.com/n0ts/ansible-human_log
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
@zealot128
zealot128 / ansible.vim
Last active December 24, 2015 18:19
vim ansible specific yaml highlightings
augroup ansible_yaml
autocmd!
au BufRead playbook.yml,roles/*yml,ansible*yml call SetAnsibleOpts()
augroup END
function SetAnsibleOpts()
syntax match yamlInterpolate '$\w\+\|{{[^}]\+}}'
syntax match yamlInterpolate '$\w\+\|{{[^}]\+}}' contained containedin=yamlString
syntax match yamlConstant '\(with_items\|when\|name\|notify\|ignore_errors\|changed_when\|register\|with_password\):'
endfunction
@alekstorm
alekstorm / README.md
Last active April 23, 2020 19:00
Ansible callback plugin that posts events to your Datadog event stream as you deploy

Installation

To install, place datadog.py in your callback plugins directory. If you don't yet have one, run:

mkdir -p plugins/callback

Then place the following in your ansible.cfg file:

[defaults]

callback_plugins = ./plugins/callback

@tbrianjones
tbrianjones / free_email_provider_domains.txt
Last active May 4, 2026 00:18
A list of free email provider domains. Some of these are probably not around anymore. I've combined a dozen lists from around the web. Current "major providers" should all be in here as of the date this is created.
1033edge.com
11mail.com
123.com
123box.net
123india.com
123mail.cl
123qwe.co.uk
126.com
150ml.com
15meg4free.com
@endolith
endolith / export_google_starred_locations.py
Created October 16, 2012 02:29
Export Google Maps starred locations
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Go to Google Bookmarks: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/
On the bottom left, click "Export bookmarks": https://www.google.com/bookmarks/bookmarks.html?hl=en
After downloading the html file, run this script on it to generate a KML.
"""
@squioc
squioc / gist:3078803
Created July 9, 2012 20:49
conversion between iso8601 date format and unix epoch datetime
from datetime import datetime
import calendar
def epoch_to_iso8601(timestamp):
"""
epoch_to_iso8601 - convert the unix epoch time into a iso8601 formatted date
>>> epoch_to_iso8601(1341866722)
'2012-07-09T22:45:22'
"""