Daily Habits

Scott Nasello
Habits Which shoe do you put on first in the morning? Do you even know? A simple exercise to bring habits further into focus is to change which shoe we put on first. Another variation might be to change which part of your mouth you start from while brushing your teeth. I find both of these changes in cues to enable awareness for other habits. Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t take 21 days to create a habit as discussed in this article.

The case for Hot Yoga

Scott Nasello
5 Reasons I love Hot Yoga I owe my DevOps career to Hot Yoga Many of us in the DevOps community have a Phoenix Project story. In my case, I was lucky enough to catch Gene Kim discussing many of the concepts from the book such as the three ways and I felt thunderstruck by the application of Theory of Constraints and many of Deming’s ideas to IT. These ideas made a ton of sense to me.

ChatOps ... A Love Story

Scott Nasello
If you couldn’t tell from the title, I am a complete homer when it comes to ChatOps. I’ll admit that I’ve lost all objectivity. ChatOps has had a profound impact on me as a leader, our teams of Infrastructure Engineers, and the sister teams that went on a journey with us. As we all stand on the shoulders of those before us, thank you to some of the pioneers of ChatOps who taught us and were very generous with their time.