February 26, 2025
Changing the Plan
If you can’t change your plans, you shouldn’t be planning. This isn’t a complicated post – if you aren’t willing to change your plan – you shouldn’t be planning. Because plans always change.
Articles for category: Drive
February 25, 2025
Approaches vs Fixes
Fixes are minor annoyances that bug us and hold us back. Add a label, change the field, move a button to the right, add a new page, clean up the navigation, add in some extra fields, show this as a grid, use a different UI widget, etc, etc. Fixes are a long list, they are the backlog that drags on forever that you open up and say – “Does this stuff still matter?” They do, to someone, and they are holding back the success of your project and work. Approaches are different. Approaches are how we solve a group of
February 24, 2025
What You Put In
What you put in, is what you get out. If you want to know more, you need to learn more (Udemy courses are cheap and a great Getting Started). If you want to have more experience, find more work (not always the easiest) but you can lower your rates, reach out to groups you wouldn’t normally hit up, market yourself to other companies, engage in freelancing, build “stuff” for yourself while looking for that great opportunity. Want to get better at something, practice doesn’t always lead to perfection, but it will lead to improvement, no matter which way you look
February 22, 2025
Shipping Your Product
What product are you shipping? Is it your code? Your writing? Your art? It probably isn’t what you think it is and/or at least not in the tangible form that you would associate with being a typical product. It’s something more, something bigger. Your value. Your integrity. Your work ethic. Your drive. Your delivery. Your initiative. Maybe it’s all these, maybe it’s more – but that’s your product, that’s what you’re shipping, that’s what people are looking for you to ship and wanting to see from you every day. Because you ship your product, each and every day, that’s how
February 20, 2025
Cold Walks
Want to break out of your meeting “blahs” or get a problem completely out of your head? Go for a walk – a cold walk – a walk so cold that your face is freezing and all you can think about is getting back to working on that problem you were trying to escape from. A walk where all you can think about is your face freezing and how warm your mitts truly are. I don’t do these types of walks all the time (they are too cold) – but it’s a great way to break out of the funk
