No matter how hard you try, you can never, ever recreate a memory. It exists at a point in time, not only reflected by the location but your age, your mood, how you were feeling that day, who you were surrounded with. You can’t recreate those moments. You can’t put all those elements into a bottle and hope that lightning will strike twice. You can create new ones, from new variables, new ideas or new…
Long drives (trips not golf) are about one thing only – can you go the distance? Can you maintain your focus over 5 hours? Can you keep your cool when things go wrong after 10 hours? Can you keep the team on point after 17 hours? Can you take a break when the finish line is close, but not everyone is at their best? Can you, yourself, keep pushing forward, eyes wide open, not kept…
When fixing something small, don’t forget to step back and look at the bigger picture. Does this apply elsewhere? Can we make this better in other parts of our software? What is the impact of deploying this elsewhere? What if as part of this work, we start building a framework that we can keep building on? Fix the immediate problem, don’t get lost in the forest, and plan for the next iteration. You wouldn’t put…
We ask kids to work together to solve problems. We ask kids to play on teams to solve problems. When young adults go get jobs, we ask them to reach out to coworkers for help. When they start their first full-time job, we implore on them to ask questions and bring others into the conversation to resolve issues. Work as a team, be a part of the team and support everyone else. But when it…
It’s getting harder to show your work. What are you going to show when asking a question to a search engine? Your question? What about ChatGPT? Your prompt? Work is important, it matters, but showing what you are working on, and how you are arriving at your answer is changing. The question of how you got to that answer needs to change as well. I tried this, then I tried that, I didn’t agree with…