May 30, 2024
Not Clickbait, not a redirect. How many times have you said that to yourself? “I never thought I’d be running my own company” “I never thought I could code like this.” “I never thought I could build this thing.” And yet, here you are, I guess you thought wrong AND never gave up – what a cool combination.
May 29, 2024
You can undo a choice. You aren’t committed for life, you might think you are, in that moment, but you can make a choice. The choice might not always be easy but it can be made. Making the choice is the hard part and is often what is confused with having no choice because in that moment we feel we have no way out. There is always choice – there is always an adventure to choose.
May 27, 2024
We worry too often about what will happen when it breaks. What if it’s not perfect? What if it’s not seamless? Make it break. When it’s broken, you have to fix it, you have no choice. A car with a punctured tire is very different from one with a slow leak – the slow leak keeps you going to the gas station to get it refilled, a puncture forces you to fix the root cause.
May 26, 2024
The best thing about writing code is the immediate feedback. It works or it doesn’t. Your code pumps out oodles of value or it returns bugs. Bugs are great, they never go out of style and you get the same level of response to what you are doing – immediate feedback as to whether you’re on the right path or the wrong one. Never fear the bug, fear the program that has no bugs.
May 24, 2024
“We don’t do it that way.” “We don’t need all that.” “We’re doing just fine.” “We’ll figure it out when we get there.” “We’re switching gears to this, forget what we said.” These are all signs of a delivery system that is tilting on the rails, about to careen.
