It’s a lot to pack for an otherwise minimalist traveler, but it always beats hotel coffee.
| Blog | https://nmeans.dev/ |
| Podcast | https://managingup.show/ |
| Pronouns | he/him |
Nickolas Means
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Storyteller, student of disasters, coffee obsessive. VP Eng., https://medscout.io. Co-host https://managingup.show. He/him. Verde hasta la muerte!
I got to Berlin too early to check into my hotel. I still have some work to do on my talk for LeadDev, so I needed a quiet place to sit and work for a few hours. Decided I might as well check a bucket list item off in the process (riding an ICE train), so now I’m headed to Wolfsburg for lunch. 😂
So I tried Malort for the first time tonight. I loved it so much that I followed my shot by ordering a Malort Hanky Panky.
Apparently I’ve been conditioning my bitter palette even more than I realized.
mseckingtonSpeaking at conferences makes you less of a stranger when you walk into a giant room full of people - because there are people there that know who you are.
Read more about how @nmeans approaches his conference talks, how he discovers what story to tell and how he puts his talks together in the latest Beyond The Spotlight!
So I’m excited that today we get to take a look behind the scenes at his process!
https://www.seckington.com/beyond-the-spotlight-nickolas-means/
Beyond The Spotlight: Nickolas Means
Welcome to the latest blog post in the Beyond The Spotlight series. In each post, I interview conference speakers about their talk process, preparation and delivery, showing what happens behind the scenes of great conference talks. In today’s Beyond The Spotlight, I’m chatting to Nickolas Means. You may
Who do I know that’s gonna be at AWS re:invent this week? I’d love to catch up!
“Why is iCloud Drive not uploading?” is now reliably my most annoying family holiday tech support task. Such an opaque system.
Had a running buddy for the first time ever for my 5mi Turkey Trot this year! Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!
Installed the 5.1.0 beta firmware on my Prusa Mini+ over the weekend to play with input shaping. (Basically, it works like noise cancelling but for physical resonance and vibration of the 3D printer, allowing it to print much faster without distortion.)
It’s like having a whole new printer.