December 20, 2022
We all know where we excel and the value we provide. The hard part is showing it to others when it’s not clear what the path is. And who wants to talk about what they are good at? Not easy, but maybe it’s a question to ask of yourself to know where you are going next.
December 18, 2022
The question isn’t what you’re going to miss or when you are going to miss it, the question is whether you are going to let it derail you because you missed one thing, broke one streak, or didn’t get the result you wanted the first time. You’re Going to Miss Something, but what matters is what you do about it.
December 16, 2022
I’ve held off on adding new categories to my posts for a while now as I generally think what you do comes down to behaviors of work that you do, but I know I’ve been writing about different areas of work that I’d like to bring more to the forefront and I’m also looking to change some of the content that I’ll be writing about. You’ll start seeing new categories such as Team (for remote, hybrid, office, team content), Ideas for posts that are simply that Ideas, and Developer where I want to get back to more technical content that
December 13, 2022
There is always that point in any project where it fell over. The hard part is realizing where you were when it fell over and what you could have done differently. The even harder part is wanting to find this point so you can make a difference on your next project (because who wants to revisit old pains)?
December 9, 2022
When doing Performance work, the first place you always need to start with is knowing your baseline. If you don’t know your baseline, you will not know what tools to build, what tests to run, and where to move forward to. How do you hit your baseline? You send it traffic, then you up, measure it, if it’s still working, up it some more. You keep upping it until it falls over and then you go to the test before where things worked – that’s your baseline. Without a proper baseline, all you are doing is throwing darts in a
