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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are two analogies for leaders that have made a visceral impact on my life and career, the architect leader and the gardening leader. These analogies became central to my personal and professional growth ever since I formally entered management five years ago. Arguably, I have been a leader for much longer than that in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derik Hammer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Any given business day you will find an age-old conflict brewing in a neutral-toned conference room or on a tiled video conference call. This conflict is the push and pulls of the idealists and the immediatists. The idealists advocate for the best possible solution with a timeline or cost that is unattainable in the short-term. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derik Hammer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 01:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just like you, I have struggled with many problems of a wide variety in my life. Given my profession, many of these problems were challenges with technology. I worked my way up to leading an operations team by solving harder and more problems than others. I worked my way up to leading an architecture team [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derik Hammer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 01:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been discovered that potassium is capable of being in two states of matter, at once. Potassium, and potentially other metals, can be a solid and a liquid simultaneously when extreme pressure and extreme temperature is applied. Some of the atoms of potassium are well formed and strong. They remain solid under these conditions [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting started with Godot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derik Hammer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of months I&#8217;ve been having fun playing around with the Godot game engine. At first, I gravitated to the systems and back-end aspect of game development. My first version was a LAN connected multiplayer framework which could only go as far as connection and client synchronization. Peer to peer RPCs were [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derik Hammer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have never been one to understand the division between work and life personas. When I was in the U.S. Navy, I had to live with the same people that I worked with each day. Often, individuals would display their complete lack of integrity and disregard for others during the work day. Then I would [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>IT Responsibility – Informed Consent</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derik Hammer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is the technical professional's responsibility to ensure that the business can give informed consent or they retain the burden of deciding for themselves.]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derik Hammer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you have been following my blog, you know that I recently went through a burnout phase. Now I have begun a learning and analysis phase. I am definitely on the upswing of things. So why do I wander my house filling unfulfilled? Who wants to work late? I&#8230; do&#8230;? An odd thought occurred to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Collaboration Commission – Part 5</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derik Hammer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2019 03:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Architecture choices for cultural factors I was having a discussion with one of my team members. He questioned some of our early decisions which predated his involvement on the project. I began to give him a bit of history of the choice and realized, while I was explaining, that some of the benefits were never [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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