January 10, 2021
Will it be on LinkedIn? Twitter or Facebook? The algorithms have changed and the content that is sent to you has as well. This isn’t a conspiracy, this is a fact, things change, code gets optimized, what you think is the right way to do something, might not be what the actual owner of the company thinks is the best way to do it. You might both be wrong. If it’s getting harder and harder to keep up, perhaps it’s time to try another approach. We did it before.
January 8, 2021
Now that you know, will you still try? Or are you worried about the opposite happening? It’s all going to work? Either way it should make for interesting story.
January 7, 2021
Years ago, I wanted to learn to draw better. I laid out this very straightforward, simple plan how to do it and shared it with the people in my project group (my community) so they knew my plan and knew what I was striving for. One piece of feedback I received was – “How are you going to share it with everyone else?” – to which my answer was, why do I need to do that? Who else cares? What the real question was – “How are you going to keep yourself accountable” – and the follow-up – “Can a
January 5, 2021
We all have that backlog of projects that we never finished. But were they really projects? If it started as an idea did you ever do any of the following? Write it down? Create a plan of attack? Start coding or writing? Look at how it works? Set some milestones and deadlines? Share it with people? Talk about it outside of your own head? If you never did any of the above, then it was an Idea and not a Project. That means its never been started. That means its not unfinished. That means its ready and waiting for you
January 4, 2021
We all have a collective shelf of unfinished projects that stare at us or mock us from afar when we take on a new challenge. “Really? So this one?” Now you’re going to do it? C’mon? Whatever the moniker, it mocks us and holds us back from starting something new and from there two things happen. One – we don’t start the project and instead look over at our old stuff wondering if we should finish it. Two – we start, but because we have that mocking voice in our head, we don’t go all in, we go half in
