1 day ago
Let your team work. You don’t need to ask them every day what they did – you need to trust them. You don’t need to check in every few moments – you need to give them time. You don’t need to prompt them for updates – you need to wait for them to come to you. They haven’t forgotten about you; they are trying to work so they can give it to you. They are not an AI Agent, so stop sending them prompts. Get out of their way, let them work; I swear you’ll be amazed.
2 weeks ago
Is the problem too many meetings or not enough time between meetings to do the work? It’s one or the other and until you ask the real question, you’ll never get to the right answer.
2 weeks ago
Knowing what the tickets are and having to manage them? That’s always been the problem. If I could have my perfect dev system. Each week (or even day), it would leave a comment in a ticket why I did not work on something or what I did thinking about it. But no effort from me, just knowledge transfer – I thought and designed something here for an hour, I didn’t get to it because I had these other 5 things to do.
2 weeks ago
When sailors of old (very old) would get a sense of an oncoming wind, they would unfurl the sails to take advantage of each and every breath of wind that could push them as far as they could go. Then, when the wind died down, they would roll them up, rest, and wait for the next big wind to come along. You can’t unfurl your sails all the time, but you can choose when exactly is the right moment to get the most out of them. Rest, Go Big, Rest again, Go Big again.
3 weeks ago
Focus on moving up; don’t look back. Do the job, focus on what matters most. When done, head back down. Don’t get distracted; keep your mind on the task at hand, and avoid any and all distractions. Applies to using a ladder to paint or screwing in a lightbulb and also career growth.
