charlespwd

SEEKING WORK, Montreal, Remote

Pragmatic Front-End Engineer working on big projects (50M+ Revenue).

Areas of focus:

  - Mentoring/Lead
  - Optimization (A/B testing)
  - Performance
  - Stability
  - Deployment
  - Automation

Skills:

  - JavaScript (React, Redux, NodeJS, Mocha, Webpack, etc.)
  - Scripting / Build / Automation (Bash, Docker, CircleCI, Jenkins, Capistrano)
  - Monitoring (AppDynamics, SumoLogic)
  - Clojure + ClojureScript

Recent successes:

  - Performance optimizations that equates to 3M extra revenue (data obtained with A/B testing with 95% statistical significance)
  - Reduce CPU lag on our fleet of servers 10-fold (Optimizations)

Rate: $105/h

Contact: charles[at]cpclermont.com

Same here. Precision 5520 (the business edition of the XPS). Only thing I wish I took was the better GPU. 4K screen + external screen can be a lot to ask from the onboard graphics.

Other than that, it is so much more performant than my old MBP. Couldn't be happier to have 32GB of ram and the infinity display.

I understand where you're coming from. But that's kind of a slippery slope argument. It is based on the premise that manipulation is evil. Manipulation isn't evil.

Let's consider for a minute an event where persuasion psychology is used to have someone buy services from a personal trainer. This PT helps the lad. She becomes healthier, happier, and fit as a result. Isn't manipulation good, in this case?

What if your product is awesome and makes people's lives better. Isn't it your moral imperative to market it to people? Isn't it moral to manipulate people into using and buying it if it makes their lives better?

Am I trying to convince myself here? Maybe. But I was reading "The Ultimate Sales Letter" this morning and there's a passage in it which says

> "ALL Successful Selling is by Nature and Necessity manipulative"

That's just how the game is played (?)

For the lazy:

  grep -i <password> 10-million-combos.txt

I can't remember from whom I read/heard this from, I think it's from Rob Walling in "Start small, stay small", but what resonated with me was the following:

1. Put yourself on an information diet, and

2. Filter out any reading that you cannot turn into an actionable item.

For instance, I have pocket open right now. There's an article named "Cache is the new RAM". I just removed it. Why? Yes. It is interesting. But the information cannot be translated into something of value with respect to what I do.

Believe me, you won't miss out on the things you forgot existed.

This concept is absolutely fantastic. I can't wait to see this cover more cities. The potential for this is enormous.

Keep it up guys!

Fantastic piece.

I believe in similar things. Here, where I currently live, we spend so much time working and being productive that we forget to ask questions. "Why am I doing this?" "What is the meaning of it?" "What is really important?" Then we end up lost, depressed and what not. Not all of us do, but some? Certainly. We do it because others do it. Because we believe that pursuing a different venue is not realistic. Others have that? Hell, I should have it too.

"I should totally run a startup."

Anyways, it happened to me. Went to SEA for four months. Dreamed. Life is amazing. I can do whatever I want. I don't need money to live. yadi. yada. Then you come back, and no one understands you. You are a hippy. I'm not.

In periods of doubt, I write things down. Then I remember what I believe. Then I remember I'm going back soon. That it is what I should be doing.

Being productive is ok. It's fun. But, in the end, it's not important. People are. At least, that's the conclusion I came to.

I guess I'm just rambling. Carry on.

Note: when I write "We", I mostly mean "I".

Thanks for the tip; they went straight onto my list of books to read.

I, too, was a bit disappointed. It felt like a videotaped blog post.

But then again, maybe I was expecting magic tricks where there aren't any.

Interesting talk. Thanks for sharing!

I love it! Thanks for this.