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This is a debrief from this week’s climbing lessons. I’m taking a course on belaying when lead climbing and a course in climbing technique. This week I took the third lesson in belaying (lead) and the second one in climbing technique. Course: Belaying - Lead Climbing Lesson 3 Goal: Learn to give out slack quickly with a Grigri by squeezing the brake. Rehearse everything we learned so far. Observations: Giving out slack quickly is especially important when clipping the lowest quickdraws.

This is a debrief from this week’s climbing lessons. I’m taking a course on belaying when lead climbing and a course in climbing technique. This week I took the second lesson in belaying (lead) and the first one in climbing technique. Course: Belaying - Lead Climbing Lesson 2 Goal: Start belaying with a Grigri. This time without second belayer with top-rope technique. For now without squeezing the Grigri brake. Observations: When the climber is low on the wall, it is possible to fall on the ground before the rope starts providing significant braking action.

My dream project makes me happy because we’re solving an important problem for our customers. To stay best in class we heavily rely on tooling. Automation lets us focus our brainpower on hard challenges. We reliably ship improvements and features, as multiple automatic safety nets catch problems in the product before a human touches the new version. The stakeholders are happy, as our progress is steady and predictable. Am I wearing pink glasses? Maybe. Let’s take a look at some tools to help us close the gap between the dream and reality.