Bill Johnson2023 Personal OKRs2 years ago I started to set yearly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for myself to both get more comfortable using the OKR framework as…7 min read·Jan 22, 2023----
Bill JohnsonDouble-Blind Coding InterviewsIf you have done a coding interview at any point in the last 20+ years, you have likely been provided a problem to solve by the…7 min read·Apr 10, 2022----
Bill Johnson2022 Personal OKRsin 2021 I attempted to set (and meet) a collection of personal Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). This was an exercise in both getting more…6 min read·Jan 3, 2022----
Bill JohnsonLearning By Interviewing On-Call EngineersRecently in our organization we’ve been doing interviews with our on-call engineers across the teams. The goal of these interviews is to…5 min read·Oct 21, 2021--1--1
Bill JohnsonMy Running Mantra: PBRWhen I’m not doing computer-y type stuff, I’m typically out running (preferably on Cascade Range trails). As I’ve run longer and longer…5 min read·Jun 17, 2021----
Bill JohnsonSRE Cultural ValuesRecently in our Site Reliability Engineering organization in Azure, we established a set of cultural values that we hold ourselves and each…3 min read·May 28, 2021----
Bill JohnsonEarth Day 2021Thursday April 22, 2021 is Earth Day and as I think back on the last year, one big theme for me has been the value of individual…5 min read·Apr 19, 2021----
Bill Johnson#LetsGreenTheWeb Together!Every website you use runs on a machine somewhere that pulls power (and likely cooling) to do its job and render the page on your screen…4 min read·Feb 19, 2021--1--1
Bill JohnsonSustainability in Software EngineeringWe are quickly approaching an inflection point that introduces a third dimension to the software engineering field: Sustainable Engineering4 min read·May 29, 2020----
Bill JohnsonFirst Seven JobsEarlier this week I tweeted out my first seven jobs (like, basically, everyone else). Before tweeting, it took me a few minutes to…4 min read·Aug 13, 2016----