Posts by Lab651 Team
Leadership Tactics, Part 2 | Troy Pongratz | #30DaysofLearning
Co-Founder, Troy Pongratz, shares his thoughts on leadership and empowering employees to make their own project plans.
Read MoreJustin Grammens | The People
Co-founder Justin Grammens shares a little bit about himself for our featured employee: favorite books, role models, and exciting new technologies
Read MoreGame Theory | Robert Waddell | #30DaysofLearning
An Introductory Course on Game Theory After listening to enough Freakonomics and other podcasts I figured it would be interesting to learn a little more about Game Theory. Plus I couldn’t find any free beer sommelier classes. Introduction to Game Theory or Never Go Against a Sicilian When DEATH is on the Line! After hearing…
Read MoreUsing My Time More Efficiently | Ryan Inman | #30DaysOfLearning
There are 168 hours in a week and you feel as though you’re always busy. Try as you may, you can’t add any hours to a week unless it’s daylight savings and even then you have to pay that back later in the year. What are your options to redeem the time? Quit your job…
Read MoreAutomating Weld Inspection
Currently, CWI’s rely on manual measurements and hand calculations – which is both time consuming and error-prone.
Our customer travels the world as a commercial welder and saw an opportunity to improve the reliability and efficiency of welding inspection – by automating the process.
Read MoreReturning to React Native: “Loading dependency graph…” forever. | Jake Berendes | #30DaysOfLearning
If you are new to React Native or coming back to it after having been away for a while, this five or so minute read will likely save you a couple days of agony. The promises React Native offers are great but when the “Getting Started” didn’t actually get me anywhere I had to investigate. I hope to save you from that pain and keep you from giving up entirely on React Native.
Read MoreWhere Did All My Time Go? | Ryan Inman | #30DaysofLearning
When we were all ordered to shelter in place back in March, I thought that I would have plenty of extra time on my hands. My commute time was down to zero, social gatherings are canceled and I can work from the comfort of my home and set my own schedule. In theory, extended work from home sounds like an introvert’s dream, right? So why did I feel less productive, less motivated, and also have less free time?
Read MoreLeadership Tactics | Troy Pongratz | #30DaysofLearning
The Good Bits Book: Leadership Strategy and TacticsAuthor: Jocko Willink “You can never rest on what you have accomplished in the past, you always need to improve for today”. Jocko Willink Leadership has been more of interest to me as of late so I have read a number of books on the subject. Leadership is…
Read MoreRobert Waddell | The People
Featured Employee Robert Waddell is the Sr. Mechanical Engineer at Lab651 and will be celebrating his 3-year work anniversary this month. Robert brings ingenuity and creativity to all of his work, and we are lucky to have him. Get to know Robert 1 / What game or movie universe would you most like to live…
Read MoreAWS Certification | Todd Cochran | #30DaysofLearning
AWS Certification Amazon Web Services have become a ubiquitous part of today’s technology landscape. I’ve worked with bits and pieces of their platform on an ad hoc basis in the past, but I never studied it in depth or looked into certification. It’s been many years since I’ve worked in a DevOps role, but cloud…
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