Every meeting, whether it’s Zoom, Meet, or Teams – the same ritual occurs. Setup my layout the way I like it for meetings and presentations, do all the fiddling around. And then go. Why these presets cannot be saved, I’ll never know. Why functions I don’t need or have never used that need to be on, I’ll never know. If you’re throwing features against the wall hoping they’ll stick and no one is using them,…
APIs are great in that they help us solve a problem in a condensed fashion and/or get access to the inner workings of an application without having to learn everything about that application. The problem with many APIs is that the errors can sometimes require reading an entire manual and/or learning about the inner workings of said system in order to be able to properly diagnose the error that might be cropping up. People who…
It’s not that we intended for them to be hard to use, it just ended up that way. The thing we thought would save the customer time, now takes twice as long. The thing we wanted to be done in one click, now takes three. The golden rule now has multiple variants that have sprung from it. All this to say, your first attempt at getting something right, might not actually get it right. But…
Yesterday we had a crazy amount of snow, fall where I live, it shut down schools and businesses. We are okay with it because it is temporary, we can see when nature will end and when our normally scheduled work lives will resume. It’s days like these that we would all cherish the opportunity to work remotely, no buses being stuck in the snow, no 3-hour drives, no getting to the office and no one…
Take a moment and think about what you are doing and why you are doing it. If it doesn’t make sense, don’t do it. If you can’t see it working out, don’t do it. Take a pause, tell people you are taking a pause. When we press pause on a show, it’s to go and do something, some other priority is nagging us (bathroom, food, talk to someone, etc) – we pause and go deal…