January 26, 2021
Are you taking any this year? Can you take any? If you can’t, when are you finding the time to develop, grow and improve not only yourself and your business? The days of waiting for your manager to come to you with proposals for training are gone. The days of planning your own training schedule are now here and waiting for you to decide what to do. If you’re not going to take the time to reflect on your own growth that who will?
January 25, 2021
The hardest part about being remote from your team is trying to figure out how to engage them on an ongoing basis. How do you keep them involved? How do you keep them engaged? Team activities are a great way, to get out there and do something together. Look at the team activities you’ve done in the past year – escape rooms, sporting challenges, outdoor excursions – in some way, shape or form they all involve you being engaged and with your team (in close proximity). That might not be possible now, and if so does it mean you stop
January 24, 2021
If your unfinished projects are adding up there are generally two approaches to solving them. One – Close them off so you don’t see them anymore. Two – Stop starting new projects until you finish the old ones. Both options involve some work in look at the old projects. But you haven’t been working on them at all, so that is why they are “old” projects in the first place, going back to them will just remind you of what they are and that you didn’t finish them. The third option, is to accept them for what they are, ideas
January 23, 2021
If you have ever written a line of code, you are a developer – it’s that simple. It doesn’t matter if you sold it. It doesn’t matter if you packaged it. It doesn’t matter if you promote it on twitter. It doesn’t matter if showed it. All that matters is that you wrote that line of code, you ran it, and it did something. If it shows “Hello World” on your screen, then congratulations you are a Developer. With that being though, you are a very new Developer, but you are on your way to being a Developer if you
January 22, 2021
One of the hardest parts about running a podcast is managing the backlog. I thought this was hard in software but when you are trying to record content in advance, so you can ship weekly and not skip a beat when something, like a Pandemic, happens it means content gets pushed out farther than we like. One of our best interviews of Season 2 of Remotely Prepared just shipped as our first episode of 2021. It’s with Erin Blaskie, Director of Marketing at Fellow, and if you’re looking for some tips on what it’s like to run a startup remotely,
