Questions are great – sit down with people, discuss a problem, get some feedback from them, perhaps some questions on points you might have skipped over that need to be better elaborated on – they can help. Here the question serves not only as a commitment to helping you grow but a guide to where to go next. Questions are useless when they are delivered in a manner that seeks to break someone, bring them down, push…
You know what was fun in school? Experiment Day You know what you should be doing more of? Experimenting Do you know why it’s hard to do it? Because we all complain about not having enough time to try something new, even for 30 minutes for the sheer pleasure of seeing what just might happen that will probably have zero value attached to it? You know what you should do this week? Perform an experiment…
I love reading articles that espouse everything you should be doing, and not just what you should be doing, but who you should be following, and who you should be reading, and what tenants you should be following, etc, etc It takes the learning out of it, there’s no pressure any more because now you can offload this work onto someone else, just wait for them to come out with a new post next week and…
Conflict in the workplace is nothing new – there is always someone you are not going to get along with, not see eye to eye with, butt heads with, etc, etc. We’ve all worked with those people that we think are coasting through the day, leaving their work to others to pick up and take on. There are two paths to handling this situation – either confront them about it and find ways to work…
I had something else in mind to write about tonight, but then in the middle of a break watched this video and immediately started laughing. I don’t know what the context is (I don’t watch Scandal) but it brought me back to my first day starting with an ASP Hoster out of University – having other developers throwing projects and code at me and literally freaking out the whole day that I was 6 hours away from being…