Small teams make bigger strides. It’s the problem of team development that we’ve been trying to solve for decades. I think it’s because of focus, they look at a problem, discuss options, and iterate towards a solution. They don’t care about what they don’t or what might not work; they just care about seeing if they can do it. When you get bigger, you think more about what you might impact before diving into fixing…
Every day in my inbox, on LinkedIn, and everywhere else is an onslaught of everything I have to learn. If you aren’t already focused on your own plan, these onslaughts will derail anything of what you are hoping to accomplish. Breathe, make a plan, allow for change, but not a complete redirect, and grow. There is so much out there to learn right now; whatever you learn will be beneficial to the path you’re on.
Time Machines don’t exist; if they did, this post would have a different ending. And yet we hope they do for that one chance to go back and make a change that might completely change our life, but in the movies, it drastically alters everything about who we are. And since we don’t have Time Machines, it’s hard to know if this is fact or fiction (currently the latter). You can’t change what happened, but…
If you can’t trust your team to do the boring, grunt, not that much interesting work to the best of their abilities, and pass in top-notch code and effort. Then they definitely should not be working on the cool stuff. Grunt work is the litmus test for whether they can handle the cool stuff.
I read the other day that the worst message Vibe Coders can receive in building their apps is – “You have Reached your Limit”. And then that is it for the next 4 – 8 hours if you wait for it to reset. The difference in developers is that their limit goes on far longer. We hit walls, and we keep going. We can’t find the answer, it spurs us on. Fuelled by tokens, no…