So the standard, that hasn’t changed in the past ten years, hasn’t been updated and/or improved upon is the Standard? The standard that we have built countless workarounds, around everything that we do and has added workload to all that we do? Standards are great, only if they evolve. When they stop evolving, they stop becoming a standard and instead become a nuisance or a tolerance. If you are responsible for a standard, identify what…
When a catastrophic issue arises on your project, the immediate push is to get in there and fix it as soon as possible. How can we patch? How can we get to the bottom of it? How can we make it work better? We do this, without fully understanding the extent or impact to the problem as a whole. We do this without possible fully understanding all the issues at large but wanting to do…
Here’s the thing no one says about the Wall. We all hit it. All the time. Every day. In different ways then how everyone else hits it, at different activities, on different projects, with different people. There is not safety from not hitting the wall. At some point in your life, you will crash into the wall, slam hard into it via a slow-motion montage action movie shot. If you haven’t hit it, you have,…
Try a hashtag and get some retweets and likes. Now what did the use of that wonderful hashtag get you? You could write anything in the world and use that hashtag and get the same number of retweets, likes and engagements? Your business/side hustle/portfolio/project isn’t driven by the number of followers, shares or likes that you get – it’s driven by what you do, when you need to do it.
We know we’re all doing it. We check our email another few times. We put the polish on that last piece of code, work, idea so we can “jump” in tomorrow. We try to replicate our old routines in the remote world but they don’t quite fit so then we try and figure them out a little more. When it’s just you that’s remote, the extra isn’t as much as it normally is, but when…