Your career shouldn’t be a drive in sedan, to and from the office every day and night listening to the podcast du jour. It should be an off-road adventure on a bike as you peddle as fast and as furiously as you can with only your own momentum to push you up and down the hills as you careen off and back onto the path in front of you. It should involve taking chances, taking…
The pixie dust, the magic potions, the unicorns or rainbows. All developer magic to make what was broken work again. All creative ideas, ingenuity, random thoughts, the willingness to try something new. All within the absence of patterns, factories, frameworks, guidelines and points. But the very best magic, the magic that takes what was broken to working once again – is the magic that which leverages what is there, what is broken and makes it shine…
I keep all my random thoughts, ideas, suggestions, AHA moments in a trello board called ideas. Every few months I go back and prune the board – removing ideas that are no longer relevant, adding on to extra cards so they have a little more context and completing deleting cards that I have utterly no idea what they meant when I wrote them down. This week I wiped the board completely clean – purged it…
I get these questions every now and again. Why? Where’s the value? Where do the posts come from? What’s it for? So here goes… Why? I like to try new things, I like to challenge myself in new endeavors and I like to see where things can go if you put enough effort into them. Where’s the value? I hope it’s in what I write and hope it’s how I get better each and every day.…
If you knew how long a project you were just assigned was really going to take would you take it on? Would knowing up front all the heartache, late nights, early mornings, frustrations or setbacks change your decisions? Would you go forward with a new plan to try and mitigate all those factors and make it better or just jump in with reckless abandon? It’s not a question of whether you’d pass or fail, but…