Barrett Clark

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Engineering manager at HashiCorp. Whiskey and cocktail enthusiast.
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@railsconf This is the route we did in 2014 https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/500677504

There is a park not too far from the hotel and we basically ran laps around it. I especially like this because it's harder to get lost and easier for everyone to enjoy their own pace.

3.01 mi run on 8/11/2014

Route from MapMyRun

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Unofficial @railsconf Atlanta 5k announcement 📣

It is on! The morning of the second day of the conference, also known as April 25. We’ll meet in the lobby of the conference hotel (Westin Peachtree Plaza) at 7a.

This is a casual 5k. No bibs or chips. Feel free to walk, run, roll, skip, handstand, whatever. The idea is to just get outside together.

See y’all there!

So I listened to this song performed by several artists dozens of times today.

Rise by Katy Perry is another song that I can never get enough of, and could be an interesting B-side to this song. I especially like this electric guitar cover by Paul Hurley: https://youtu.be/D2UE1g7_TNs

Katy Perry - Rise - Instrumental Electric Guitar Cover - By Paul Hurley

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Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile are treasures separately and especially together. https://youtu.be/I1BjwCIXd-0
Sara Bareilles - She Used To Be Mine (feat Brandi Carlile)

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I am in love with this bottle: https://crucialdetail.com/products/porthole

I did a tasting menu dinner while at RubyConf and the restaurant served an infused custom vermouth blend in one of these. It was delicious, of course.

The Porthole

I've worked in the software industry for 22 years. Every single team/role structure that I've seen, I've seen fail. There are also successes. But anything *can* fail.

I am starting to think that one surefire way to guarantee eventual failure is to assume that team structure, roles, and responsibilities can or should be independent of the specific people in the roles. Or that roles and structure shouldn't evolve in response to the people in specific roles at the time.

May life treat you the way you treat waiters and animals
An interesting thing I learned from Eleanor Roosevelt's biography is that Hitler used the USA's treatment of black people as justification for his treatment of Jews, and this was widely regarded *in the USA* as a reasonable point and a reason to stay out of the war: "we would have to stop mistreatment of black people".

Hey #DevOps folks... The Phoenix Project is currently FREE! Tell your friends!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078Y98RG8

Hats off to Georgia. It wasn’t the game I wanted it to be, but I have a feeling the Dawgs would have put on a clinic no matter who they played. Go Frogs.