I wrote an article awhile back on what I think it takes to be a Mentor to someone. What is not said in this article is that I learned all of these traits many years ago, when I was still in University, watching a telephone conversation take place that to this day I never forgotten and convey to others. The approach, skill, patience and integrity in that one interaction taught me what no book ever could hope to…

All of it. You can change your job, change your career, change your vocation, apply for a new designation, go back to school, learn online, learn in a classroom, learn at home or on the way to work. You can download podcasts that make your drive to work that much more interesting, attend meetups with people you have never met and sign-up for programs you know nothing of except that you all can sign-up individually.…

Over the past week, I’ve had two experiences with applications implemented across a variety of platforms with completely different User Experiences – I can hold one up against the other and see the difference. Different features, different access points, etc, etc. Even worse, I can look at these experiences across a variety of devices and platforms and see how they are completely different in their implementation as well. If you are building a solution across a…

And will you keep going? If you know today – that it is not going to get easier for the next few weeks, months or years – will you keep going. Not maybe it will get easier, but definitively know that it will not get easier. Will you keep going? Will you keep waking up every day to make it happen? Will you keep pushing until you have nothing left to give? Will you still invest…

You are going to screw up, something is going to go wrong, what you are trying to accomplish will not work. You will fail. But worse than your failure, will be your inability to see that you have failed, to take the opportunity to learn from it and make yourself better next time. Celebrating failure is great, it signifies effort, endurance and commitment to keep trying. Not learning from failure ensures that you will inevitably…