If my biggest problem right now is ZOOM picking up the wrong mic when I do a podcast recording, I’m doing pretty well in 2021. After a few hiccups, here’s the Season 2 Wrap-Up on our season of Remote Leadership. It was a great season with great guests. Looking forward to Season 3 where we take Remote to the next level and hopefully I don’t screw up the recording this time. https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/season2-wrapup
When demonstrating code, there is only one goal – people buy into what you have bought. With that, they should leave the room excited, pumped and dying to use your code. I used to work with a company where every time someone was about to give a demo someone would shout out – “Wow Us”. This isn’t about flash, pizzazz, smoke machines, art of the possible or any of that, this is about code that…
We know we’re all doing it. We check our email another few times. We put the polish on that last piece of code, work, idea so we can “jump” in tomorrow. We try to replicate our old routines in the remote world but they don’t quite fit so then we try and figure them out a little more. When it’s just you that’s remote, the extra isn’t as much as it normally is, but when…
I think it was Grade 10 or 11 and I was reading a book by Farley Mowat – perhaps Never Cry Wolf? To be honest, I can’t remember. But what I do remember is this one line that he wrote in it that went something like this (paraphrasing) – “When it’s cold outside, it’s the only time we can feel alive.” It’s cold outside. I can vouch for this and it’s a great feeling.
The Master Plan. The weeks of bug fixing. The final project push. Taking ownership of your work. Learning a new language. Creating a new learning hack. Building a new program. Whatever it is you are doing, the best moment, is when it clicks, when it comes together. It doesn’t mean you are done, it simply means that it’s possible, that their is light and now the heavy work can start. That’s the go ahead that…