Passions can turn into hobbies that can turn into ventures that can turn into something that you never dreamed could ever happen when it was a small little passion. Finding time for your passion, when it’s new, untrustworthy, hard to figure out and fraught with so many unknowns can be even trickier. So here’s the secret to making time for your passion. Use your latest handheld device or old-school calendar. And schedule the time. Don’t…
And if they don’t know what they want, then how can they be right? This is a dangerous assumption to make that your customers “know” what they want. When you start to look for a new car, do you know everything and anything about the new features available to you in the current models? And if you don’t know everything, how can you be “automatically” right in what you are asking for? And conversely, because…
If you’re a developer, you’ve heard about the argument of delivering the Tractor vs the Cadillac. If not, here it is in condensed form. Tractor – rock solid, gets you from A to B with little fanfare, doesn’t look great, does the job, never falls over, stable as a rock. Cadillac – it looks really pretty, it’ll give you the smoothest ride from A to B (when it works), it has all the bells and…
At the time of this post, I have written over 750+ blog entries, another 40 – 50 articles on other sites (Medium, LinkedIn, others) and am still toiling away on endeavors elsewhere. But it’s not enough. I’m not there yet. I’m in that valley of Craptivity, not yet out, still deep, still taking that swing for the fences every day. Just like everyone else who shows up to put in the time, chip away at…
A quick follow-up to last week’s post on being Getting Past the Gatekeeper. If you ARE the Gatekeeper, it’s not a free ride for you either. In front of you, there is this candidate which probably can do a number of technical things you can’t do (or might even care to do). And that’s okay (you’re not the developer). But on top of identifying who they are and whether they are a good fit for your…