Alan Williamson

Observations on software, leadership,
and thinking like a CTO

  • Consistency

    The importance of consistency in both bourbon production and software development. It emphasizes that, like distillers who maintain quality through careful processes, software developers must ensure strong quality control at every stage. By taking individual responsibility for output quality, producers can enhance consistency and overall effectiveness in their work.

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  • Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)

    Spooks was a very successful BBC drama series that ran for a number of years and was the jumping off ground for one or two big movie stars – BBC dramas have a good habit of that (see Idris Elba in Luther).   Though while the BBC make world beating dramas, they rarely make the Read Post ⇢

  • 3 Days to Kill (2014)

    Kevin Costner, obviously seeing how much of an action star Liam Neeson was turning into in his later years, was wanting some of that action.   Having a script from Mr Transporter himself ( Luc Besson ) we have Costner, a older CIA agent who finds himself dying.  He decides to reconnect with his ex wife and daughter Read Post ⇢

  • Shakespeare in Love (1998)

    I remember the first time I seen this movie.  It was the opening weekend in Leicester Square, London and the whole place was decked out in a very Shakespearean theme.  We follow Will Shakespeare in Elizabethan London as he attempts to finish his play; Romeo and Ethel – the pirate princess. So already you know Read Post ⇢

  • Calvary (2014)

    I am such a huge fan of Brendan Gleeson and for that reason I keep an eye on his output.  A lot of his movies don’t make the mainstream press and this one was no different, hopping in and out of the cinema fairly quickly.  Usually the ones that don’t make mass appeal are the Read Post ⇢

  • Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

    So after 3 nights in Las Vegas what better movie to watch on the flight home than Ocean’s Eleven – the Clooney/Pitt version.  I do have the original rat pack version in my library which I will review at some point on this movie-a-day-for-a-year journey.  Amusing that the stranger, sitting beside me on flight, she Read Post ⇢

  • Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

    Hard to believe this movie is 21 years old, yet still as funny, sharp and clever as the first day it was viewed.  You wouldn’t think this would age terribly well but it is holding up extremely good. Jim Carrey proved his comic genius when he burst onto the screen as Ace Ventura, the Columbo Read Post ⇢

  • Michael Jackson: One (2013)

    Okay, while strictly not a movie, this was a show that was taken in while visiting that oasis in the desert they call Las Vegas.   This was my first ever Cirque Du Soleil show and I wasn’t disappointed.   I am a Michael Jackson fan and with such an iconic catalog of music, the Read Post ⇢

  • Plastic (2014)

    I will confess that this one was an impulse watch on Netflix.  Sometimes the odd gem pops up on Netflix that missed all the usual marketing hype.  This isn’t one of them. Here we have a bunch of college students, who are apt at acquiring credit cards through fair means or foul and then spending Read Post ⇢

  • Beasts of no Nation (2015)

    I always knew coming to this movie was readily admitting you were willingly stepping into an emotional roller-coaster that was going to throw you around and have you screaming to get out, but you have to stay to the end.  Netflix’s production of Idris Elba’s story of child soldiers in Africa did not disappoint. The African Read Post ⇢

the leg-end that is, Alan Williamson.

For over 20 years, I’ve shared my thoughts whenever the muse strikes. It’s unpredictable, honest, unedited, and occasionally witty. I’m living the best years of my life, working harder than ever, and enjoying every second.