Здраво, јас сум Евгенија, и во моментов го живеам најисполнувачкото поглавје од мојот живот: волонтирање во Аруба преку Европскиот Солидарен Корпус. Го избрав овој волонтерски проект затоа што сакав да ја спојам мојата страст за развој на младите со стекнување на нови ку...| VOICES
My name is Evgenija, and right now, I’m living one of the most rewarding chapters of my life: volunteering in Aruba through the European Solidarity Corps. I chose this volunteering project because I wanted to combine my passion for youth development with gaining new cultural and professional experiences. At the school where I volunteer, my […]| VOICES
Next month, I'll be hosting 2 or 3 discussions of David Rowley's talk, Writing fast C code for a modern CPU (and applying it to PostgreSQL), given at 2025.pgconf.dev (talk description here). If you're interested in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite to one of the sessions. Thanks to David for agreeing to attend the sessions. As usual, nobody is too inexperienced to join us, and nobody is too experienced. We have everyone from total newcomers to interested...| Robert Haas
I started running PostgreSQL Hacking Workshops just about one year ago, and I've run one each month, except for May, when we had pgconf.dev. Signups are now open for August, if you're interested in joining us for a discussion of Peter Geoghan's talk on Multidimensional search strategies for composite B-Tree indexes, but I'd also like to take a few minutes to summarize where we are after one year of hacking workshops, both the good and the maybe not quite as good. So here goes.| Robert Haas
Next month, I'll be hosting 2 or 3 discussions of Tomas Vondra's talk, Fast-path locking improvements in PG18, given at 2025.pgconf.dev (talk description here). If you're interested in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite to one of the sessions. Thanks to Tomas for agreeing to attend the sessions. We'll have plenty more 2025.pgconf.dev talks on the schedule in future months, as well! As usual, nobody is too inexperienced to join us, and nobody is too experi...| Robert Haas
Next month, I'll be hosting 2 or 3 discussions of Masahiko Sawada's talk, PostgreSQL meets ART - Using Adaptive Radix Tree to speed up vacuuming, from 2024.pgconf.dev. If you're interested in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite to one of the sessions.| Robert Haas
Here are a few mentoring-related updates.Read more »| Robert Haas
This month, I'm excited to tell you about the returning of the PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop along with a new Patch Review Workshop organized by Paul Jungwirth.Read more »| Robert Haas
Please considering joining us next month (February 2025) for a discussion of Heikki Linnakangas's talk on The Wire Protocol, from PGCONF.EU 2024. For those not familiar with the concept, this hacking workshop is basically a virtual meetup: you watch the talk, and then you sign up to participate in one of two or three Zoom meetings where we discuss the talk. Usually, we're able to get the original author of the talk to join us; thanks to Heikki for agreeing to join us this month.| Robert Haas
Next month, I'l be hosting 2 or 3 discussions of Andres Freund's talk, NUMA vs PostgreSQL, given at PGConf.EU 2024. You can sign up using this form. I anticipate that both Andres and I will be present for the discussions, and I'd like to thank Andres and all of the other presenters who have made time to join the discussions and answer questions for their time (so far: Melanie Plageman, Thomas Munro, Andrey Borodin). It has been absolutely great having them join the workshops.| Robert Haas
Next month, I'll be hosting a discussion of Melanie Plageman's talk, Intro to Postgres Planner, given at PGCon 2019. You can sign up using this form. To be clear, the talk is not an introduction to how the planner works from a user perspective, but rather how to hack on it and try to make it better and perhaps get your improvements committed to PostgreSQL. If you're interested, please join us. I anticipate that both Melanie and I will be present for the discussions.| Robert Haas
Next month, I'll be hosting a discussion of a talk by Andy Pavlo, given for his Intro to Database Systems course at CMU. The title of the talk is "Memory & Disk I/O Management and the video link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoewwZwVmv4. As usual, we have will have three sessions, and you can sign up to participate in one of them using this form.| Robert Haas
This month, I'll be hosting a discussion of Thomas Munro's 2024.pgconf.dev talk, Streaming I/O and vectored I/O. As usual, there will be three sessions, and you can use this form to sign up for the session you prefer. However, if you do want to attend, please sign up right away, because our first session is scheduled for this Thursday.| Robert Haas
Our talk for September 2024 will is by Andrey Borodin on his Youtube Channel "Byte Relay." The talk is Walk-through of Implementing Simple Postgres Patch: From sources to CI. I picked this talk for two reasons: first, in the poll I ran in the PostgreSQL Hacker Mentoring Discord, it got almost as many votes as the talk we did this month on the query planner. Second, I wanted to have at least some content that was targeted toward newer developers.| Robert Haas
I'm pleased to be able to formally announce the PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop, as well as our first two topics, planned for August and September 2024. | Robert Haas
Here are a few updates on the mentoring program that I announced in a previous blog post.| Robert Haas
Yesterday, I announced a call for applications for a new mentoring program for PostgreSQL code contributors that I'm trying to start. I'm posting this on my blog as well for better visibility, and also to offer a few more comments and thoughts on this general topic of mentoring.| Robert Haas
The 7th annual Undergraduate Architecture Mentoring (uArch) Workshop took place alongside the International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2025, in the vibrant city of Tokyo, Japan! Similar to previous years, uArch was conducted in a hybrid format, combining in-person and virtual elements.The workshop introduces undergraduate and early master’s students to research and career paths in […]| SIGARCH
As a current grad student, I spend a lot of time in classroom settings. Recently, I attended an intensive course with peers who are mostly a little older than me and further along in their careers. While I’ve been graciously mentored by many of them, I’m also keenly aware of my innocence and naivety. I Read more... The post Go and Cancel No More appeared first on Christianity Today.| Christianity Today
McCarthy Mentoring is delighted to announce Licia Heath, CEO, Women for Election as the recipient of our 2025 Not for Profit Executive Mentoring Scholarship. Licia Heath is driven by the mission to inspire and equip more women, of all backgrounds, to run for public office and build gender parity across all levels of government in Australia. On receipt of the award Licia says, “I am excited to strengthen my own leadership skills whilst identifying future areas of opportunity for Women for El...| McCarthy Mentoring | Inspiring Leaders
Setting goals is an important first step in professional development and our Set Your Goals cards are a popular tool to help participants articulate their priorities. They are designed to help you think more strategically about your performance, career and life.| McCarthy Mentoring | Inspiring Leaders
Context and MEL challenge Designing Evaluation and Communication for Impact (DECI) is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Ottawa). Our partners are researchers in the global South committed to bridging research to policy in dynamic topics. Their applied research efforts are complex and evolving, and require a developmental MEL support. Since 2009 DECI […]| Unstuck by UNDP
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) is launching a new teaching mentorship program designed for philosophers teaching in small philosophy departments. A small department, for the purposes of this AAPT program, is either a philosophy department with three or fewer faculty in it, or a multidisciplinary department with three or fewer philosophers in it.| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Learn how to select effective L&D programs that close skill gaps. Expert tips on assessment, program types, measurement, and ROI for HR leaders.| Growthspace
Drawing inspiration from Tolkien's "Leaf by Niggle," this post reflects on the tension between personal achievement and mentoring in academia. Austin Young Shull argues that interactions with students, often seen as interruptions, are essential to his vocation as a scientist and professor. This re-framing reveals how contributions to others' success expand one's calling beyond individual work.| vocation matters
Mentoring programs are an invaluable tool for organizations, with multiple benefits ranging from higher retention to a stronger leadership pipeline. These models help support successful mentoring programs with guidance for both mentors and mentees. The “3 Cs of mentoring” model … Read more ›| Chronus
It's not that hard to build a coding agent. 300 lines of code running in a loop with LLM tokens. You just keep throwing tokens at the loop, and then you've got yourself an agent.| Geoffrey Huntley
Innovation is at the heart of any successful, growing company, and often that culture begins with an engaged, interconnected organization.| Stack Overflow Blog
Struggling reports and quiet high performers both need your attention. Performance management isn’t just for problems.| scott kosman
Advice for first-time managers from someone who learned it the hard way, cleaned it up, and passed it on.| scott kosman
Discover how mentorship and self-determination help youth who are blind or low vision navigate their career choices effectively.| ConnectCenter
In conversation with Rabiya Shahid (MSIS 2025) and Sreeram Nambiar (Principal Solution Engineer, Salesforce) The post Foster’s Mentorship Culture Turns Connections into Careers appeared first on Foster Business Magazine.| Foster Business Magazine
Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) mentorship program builds confidence and career readiness The post Mentorship with Purpose: The MSBA’s Secret Weapon appeared first on Foster Business Magazine.| Foster Business Magazine
Personalized mentorship accelerates growth and leads to career clarity for supply chain management students The post The Supply Chain Advantage: Mentorship That Means Business appeared first on Foster Business Magazine.| Foster Business Magazine
NASIG’s Mentoring and Student Outreach Committee is thrilled to be accepting applications for its Mentoring program for 2025/2026. This program is designed to provide a year-long opportunity for networking and professional development between NASIG regular members and student members, recent … Continue reading →| NASIG Blog
according to developmental coaching guru David Clutterbuck, a common complaint from disgruntled coachees is that their coach sticks too rigidly to the ‘never give advice’ rule. So is there ever a time when it’s right to step out of non-directive mode by sharing information, giving advice, or even telling the coachee what to do? The post Is It Ever Right For Developmental Coaches to Give Advice? appeared first on Coaching Leaders.| Coaching Leaders
Dear Debian community, This is bits from the DPL for June. The Challenge of Mentoring Newcomers In June there was an extended discussion about the ongoing challenges around mentoring newcomers in Debian. As many of you know, this is a topic I’ve cared...| Debian Project
CIRTL is facilitating a workshop on mentoring and the critical role it plays in career success. In this workshop, "Pathway Mapping for Professional Success in Higher Education," hosted by The Ohio State University, participants will reflect on their career journey and sources of support in that journey using a living document known as a mentor map. This online workshop meets on Zoom on Thursdays, July 17 and July 31 at 11am-12:30pm ET. The post Online mentoring workshop for graduate students ...| The Graduate School
Most of the talks that I attended at Open Source Summit last week in Denver were in the general category of recruting and mentoring of new contributors. This is a bit of a brain dump of that content. The first talk I want to highlight was a panel session featuring Dawn Foster, Ruth Ikegah, Matt … Continue reading Mentoring and recruiting in open source→| Notes In The Margin
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Do you want great questions or great answers? At first glance, coaching and mentoring may seem to be the same thing and are often transposed in our thinking as they are both techniques requiring si…| Michael Donaldson The Value Innovator
A mentor can be one of the most positive role models in a young person’s life. By building a strong, trusting relationship with a suitable adult brings many emotional, social and developmental benefits – may of which directly reduce the risk of children’s involvement in violence How mentoring helps prevent youth violence Mentoring can significantly… The post The power of mentoring to reduce youth violence appeared first on Youth Endowment Fund.| Youth Endowment Fund
Ever wondered what happens if you take the technique at "Can a LLM convert C, to ASM to specs and then to a working Z/80 Speccy tape? Yes." and run it against the Atasslian Command Line (ACLI) interface? Strap yourself in, as the Z80 is amongst one| Geoffrey Huntley
🚧 hello consumers of RSS, if you're reading this, then you're ahead of the curve. These are the slides from my upcoming talk, which will be delivered at Webdirections in a couple of hours. After the talk is available, this post will be updated with the| Geoffrey Huntley
Something I've been wondering about for a really long time is, essentially, why do people say AI doesn't work for them? What do they mean when they say that? From which identity are they coming from? Are they coming from the perspective of an engineer with a job title and| Geoffrey Huntley
McCarthy Mentoring is delighted to have supported Eyes of Hope co-Founder Dr Shenouda Girgis in his first year running the new charity that brings free mobile eye care clinics and glasses to Sydney’s homeless and disadvantaged. Winner of our 2024 Not for Profit Executive Scholarship, Shen received a Hogan Leadership Assessment to learn more about his strengths and development opportunities to work on in this new role outside of the usual hospital setting. He was then matched with en...| McCarthy Mentoring | Inspiring Leaders
This is a follow-up from my previous blog post: "deliberate intentional practice". I didn't want to get into the distinction between skilled and unskilled because people take offence to it, but AI is a matter of skill. Someone can be highly experienced as a software engineer in 2024, but that| Geoffrey Huntley
Let's be honest, as school leaders, every minute on our calendars is maxed out. Most days feel like a sprint; before we know it, we're putting out fires,| Region 13's Blog
Sometimes, when people are retiring, the organization says, ‘Bye, bye, have a good time.’ Sometimes people get a farewell party or some kind of gift. And sometimes the door is just closed without any thanks for all the time you spent there trying to achieve goals and make the organization … Read More The post Harvest the wisdom or throw it out, that is the question! appeared first on Genuine Contact.| Genuine Contact
Calling all mentors, mentees, and program managers! Here’s your mentoring guide that covers it all from techniques to matching to ROI.| Chronus
“Instill in a person a higher vision of themselves, of their talents and worth, of their immeasurable value, and odds are favorable they will strive to live up to those expectations.” – Dr. Juneau Robbins Shots, shouts, and sirens. Last night more shootings in my North Minneapolis neighborhood. An innocent grandmother sitting in her minivan […] The post The Power of One: How One-on-One Mentorship Could Change The World appeared first on Dr. Juneau Robbins.| Dr. Juneau Robbins
Happy T-SQL Tuesday! Even though it’s my topic, I still found this post hard to write about because there’s so much I want to say. Why I Mentor? The placeholder session that I use to submit to be a mentor for New Stars of Data is called “Pay It Forward.” In a nutshell, those 3 […]| Deb the DBA
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Deborah Melkin – Data Platform MVP, WIT co-lead and WITspiration founder. Deb’s invitation is to blog about mentoring and sponsorship. What does mentoring and sponsorship mean to you? What value do you see in mentoring and sponsoring? I’ve had many mentors through my tech journey. To me,Continue reading "T-SQL Tuesday #184 Mentoring and Sponsorship"| Curious..about data
You can watch or listen to Safe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon and wherever else you find your podcasts.| Youth Endowment Fund
Done properly, mentoring engenders a lifetime commitment – on both sides.| Total Internal Reflection
I have to say that I’m so happy with all the response for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. I think I had 18 responses to go through. It’s been a while since I have seen this many people reply. Can we ke…| Deb the DBA
Beyond deliberate practice... reflective practice helps transform experience into meaningful knowledge and growth.| Richard Hughes-Jones
Happy T-SQL Tuesday! I’m excited to be this month’s host. Our topic this month is one that’s near and dear to my heart: Mentoring and Sponsorship. For those of you who don’t know, I am a co-f…| Deb the DBA
Kylie Cancilla and Caterina Ponti, USF data science students, are mentoring, leading Datathon workshops, and fostering inclusion through WiDS—applying data to real-world challenges in healthcare and the environment.| WiDS Worldwide
A peer mentoring program is ideal for bringing fresh ideas, building trust and breaking down silos.| Chronus
Ello everyone, in the "Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code" blog post, I teased about a new meta when using Cursor. This post is a follow-up to the post below. You are using Cursor AI incorrectly...I’m hesitant to give this advice away for free,| Geoffrey Huntley
Two weeks ago a student anonymously emailed me asking for advice. This is the reply and if I was in your shoes this is what I'd do. So, I read your blog post "An oh f*** moment in time" alongside "The future belongs to idea guys that can just do| Geoffrey Huntley
I talk about the similarities between internships and contributor mentorship programs. Specifically through my own internship and my perspective of Djangonaut Space.| Better Simple
What follows is an email that arrived in my inbox moments ago, reproduced in it's entirety. I'll be doing a response letter, after I get some sleep. For now, discuss at https://x.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1888365040572751973 Hi there, So, I read your blog post "An oh f*** moment in| Geoffrey Huntley
At "an oh fuck moment in time", I closed off the post with the following quote. N period on from now, software engineers who haven't adopted or started exploring software assistants, are frankly not gonna make it. Engineering organizations right now are split between employees who have had that "oh| Geoffrey Huntley
Our dear friend, author, blogger, mentor to many and former educator, Pete Springer recently wrote a beautiful essay about one of the most influential people in his life, Nancy Wheeler. In this epi…| The Heart of the Matter
March was an easy month for a blog. I had many initial ideas, all essential and linked to a year in teaching. Metacognition, Memory, Mentoring, Mistakes. I decided to write about mentoring and share some of my earlier experiences of mentoring as a trainee teacher. Mentoring is one of the most important elements in teacher... Continue Reading →| School of Education
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) represent the strategies and practices companies implement to foster a workplace that embraces differences, values| Chronus
Your brand and reputation, how other people see you, as opposed to how you see yourself, is a predictor of your success at work. This is the premise of the Hogan personality assessments that suggest that people are highly subjective and not always accurate in their self -perceptions and this can derail relationships at work, especially when we are stressed, bored or uncertain.| McCarthy Mentoring | Inspiring Leaders
This episode of Scran all about women in whisky. I am joined by Becky Paskin, drinks journalist, broadcaster and founder of the OurWhisky Foundation which supports and promotes women in the whisky industry. I am also joined by Sarah Burgess, whisky maker for the Lakes Distillery. We discuss the reasoning behind setting up the OurWhisky […]| Scran Podcast | Scotsman Food and Drink
I recently was given a survey to fill out by an organization I do training for. I suppose it’s a pretty predictable set of questions about who I am and how I got into the industry, and advice I have for people who are just starting out. But it caught me at just the right… Continue reading “You Caught Me In An Introspective Moment”→| Righteous IT
Discover 10 practical steps to improve company culture in a remote setting, and see how these changes can positively impact your business.| Chronus
At The Center for Family Justice, we talk a lot about giving people hope. We give them information and support as they navigate life during and after abuse. We let them know we believe them and believe in them. Steve Pemberton, our 2024 Speaking of Women keynote speaker, knows what's possible for anyone who walks through CFJ's doors [...] The post The HOPE Post: 2024 Speaking of Women Keynote Speaker Steve Pemberton: CFJ’s Work Matters appeared first on The Center for Family Justice.| The Center for Family Justice
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Struggling with teens or young adults? Developmental psychologist David Yeager offers fresh mentoring tips on motivating and connecting with them| Podcast Notes
In difficult times, GROWTH is hard to achieve, and it is necessary to change not only the way you think but the way you behave – it’s time to try something new. How else will you find out wha…| Michael Donaldson The Value Innovator
Jackie Clifford explores what is ‘purpose-driven work’ in L&D – and how can organisations ensure that purpose aligns employees?| TrainingZone
Here are a few updates on the mentoring program that I announced in a previous blog post . First, I ended up keeping applications open for 1...| rhaas.blogspot.com
In this compelling case study, we examine the persistent challenge of low female participation in the male-dominated mining industry, where women make up just 16% of the workforce. To address this disparity, the Women in Mining Network (WIMnet) of New South Wales introduced a transformative initiative – the WIMnet NSW Mentoring Program. Now in its […] The post Case Study: Women in Mining Network NSW appeared first on ART OF MENTORING.| ART OF MENTORING
Reverse mentoring (or mentoring up) is a practical way to enable senior people in organizations to learn from more junior colleagues.| ART OF MENTORING
The right mentor can provide a student, young professional, or even a mid-career veteran invaluable strategic guidance and tactical advice.| IEEE-USA InSight
Yesterday, I announced a call for applications for a new mentoring program for PostgreSQL code contributors that I'm trying to start. I'm p...| rhaas.blogspot.com
Sasha Louise Smith, a coach supporting neurodivergent dog professionals talks about using your strengths and ways to thrive.| Publicity for Pet Businesses
Over the years, NATO-CMRE have been fostering autonomy and robotics in different events such as euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge and the European Robotics League Emergency 2017, involving the use of multi-domain cooperative teams of robots in search and rescue scenarios.| Earthzine
The 8th edition of SAUVC was the largest in terms of team registration, and was also endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences.| Earthzine
Skills needed and tips on how to become a corporate trainer to become self-employed. Also how to become a freelance trainer or training facilitator.| Symonds Research
Learn more about how accelerating the rate at which you continually create, update, synthesise and advance your models is key to mastery.| Richard Hughes-Jones
School year 2014-2015 is ending. It’s time for a brief report. Session Restore As I announced last year, I am mostly inactive on Session Restore these days. However, I am quite happy to have landed « Bug 883609 – Make Backups Useful ». This has considerably improved the resilience of Session Restore against a variety […]| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
The ETH society for students studying Computer Science (VIS) has| 200ok - Accelerating Publishing
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Good mental models and frameworks make us smarter, but only up to a point, after which they can actually constrain our thinking.| Richard Hughes-Jones
How Deliberately Developmental is your organization?| Richard Hughes-Jones
Benefits of mentoring programs extend to mentors, mentees and their orgs. See how they can improve employee retention, advancement, belonging and beyond.| Chronus
Reverse mentoring programs are a swapped form of traditional mentoring in which a junior employee mentors a more experienced colleague.| Chronus
There's a good chance your CEO has a business coach. But what about you? Here are a few examples of how buisness coaches and mentors have helped VPs and the next generation of marketing, sales, and customer success leaders to unlock their full potential.| KickStart Alliance - Customer Success Consulting
Discover the meaning behind "it depends" in web development and why it's often the answer to many questions in this field.| S.Bistrović
History changes how we see things. No, this is not about the stuff in history books. This is about the history born and raised from our lives, not of those long dead. As more of this history grows, the Jack Welch legacy does not age well. What was good wine, time is turning to vinegar.... Read More| Influencing and Problem Solving for Leaders and Others
Solution-focused coaching is a way of using therapy techniques in order to lead better conversations with direct reports and peers at work.| Code Capsule | A blog by Emmanuel Goossaert