Welcome, friends.
Here you’ll find everything I write, publish and shoot with my camera. You might occasionally find some music too. I hope you enjoy what you discover as much as I do making it. - Russ Miles: Listener, Reader, Writer, Speaker.
“I think it's terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfil other people's expectations. They generally produce their worst work when they do that.” - David Bowie
This year has been a great one for my writing. I am so happy to have been able to write and share so much, and hope for even more in 2024. Before we dive into the new year, here is a curated list of those writings I’m most proud of from 2023:
Free:
‘"I'm going to die!!": How I Deal with the Fight, Flight or Freeze of Public Speaking’, an article from my SubStack
‘What are you here for?’, a poem from my SubStack
‘Busy isn’t the point’, an article from my SubStack
Books and Publications:
‘Digitalisation of Financial Services in the Age of Cloud’, a book from O’Reilly Media
‘The Fundamentals of Telemetry Pipelines’, a book from O’Reilly Media
‘Hic manebimus optime’
‘Here we will stay most excellently’
- Livi
Writing
I write poetry, fiction and non-fiction on a variety of subjects from technology to mental and physical health on my SubStack, sometimes on my Medium publications, and sometimes through more traditionally published works of which a sample of are:
‘Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice’, O’Reilly Media - Chapter contributor.
‘Head First Software Development’, O’Reilly Media - Co-author
Public Speaking
I speak on a variety of technical and interpersonal, team skills subjects at various international conferences and events. A small sample of my talks:
‘Developing a Culture of Reliability and Resilience through Chaos’
‘Bugs in Collaboration: “Learning from Incidents Edition”’ - (Trigger warning, this explores what I learned from difficult experiences such as cancer)
Technology and Open Source
I create and collaborate on a variety of open source and technology projects, including the popular Chaos Toolkit.
Today, I am a Technical Product Owner building an internal developer platform. I’m also writing my next book on Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms, and completing some personal projects as well.
Love what you create, love who you’re with, love who you are.
Just love.