April 12, 2019
What am I not doing right? What do I need to get better at? What can I improve on? If you’re leading a team, interchange “I” for “We”. Everything can start from those questions, irregardless of what state you find yourself in. When answered honestly and directly, you’ll have an idea of what needs to come next for where things need to start from.
April 11, 2019
How many software upgrades have you gone through in your life? Your home PC? Your phone? Your tablet? Your work PC? If you’re deep in server farms? How many of them have you gone through? Whatever, the case, the magic is in the upgrade. It’s in the time that the company put into making the software great and functioning that matters. You can tell how much they put into before you even start the process. Are you presented with documentation before you start or when something goes wrong? Do you have to go find the documentation when things go sideways
April 10, 2019
Everyone has a plan, a guide, a path, an objective, a career destination in mind for you. Maybe it works for you now so you go along with it. Maybe it sounds really promising with lots of hope – you complete X and you get Y – so you go along with it. Maybe it gets you a number of short term goals – so you go along with it. But if you’re always “going along with someone else’s plan”, you’re never creating your own. You’re never finding your own path. You’re never leading yourself. Maybe it’s time to start
April 9, 2019
Guilty. We’re always on the go, always moving to the next thing, always trying to cram in the next big Instagrammable moment. And then onto the next thing. That whole “stopping to smell the roses” thing isn’t happening as much as our photos show they are. Do we even know what rest is anymore? Is it lying down? Does that rejuvenate you? Or is working out your rest? Going for a walk? Staring up at the sky? I don’t think resting is sleep (because that’s sleep), but I also don’t think we all know how to rest for whatever works
April 8, 2019
How many times have I tried to put in all the right information, store the profile and click this checkbox “Allow me to save credentials”? How many times have I been fooled into thinking this time it will work? How many blogs and articles have been written by people much smarter than me trying to help people to resolve this problem that continues to have so many issues with each new version and iteration of software? (A quick google search of – “RDP allow me to save credentials never works” – returned 7,940,000 results, some going back 4 or 5
