Sometimes I sit down and try to come up with as many ideas as I can. I’ll set a goal that I will not stop until I write down 25 ideas. Then I get stuck at 15. I used to get up, go do something, try to think of more, but then I realized that was forcing the problem. The best way to get more ideas? Is just to start doing it. Start writing. Start…
AI gets it perfect. My writing is not so much. When I was writing Code Your Way Up, the editor called me the “King of Run-On Sentences”. Not too bad a crown to wear. I won’t be writing with /tone any time soon. And that way, you’ll always be able to know it came from me.
A plan can be on a napkin, on post-it notes, a bullet journal, a piece of cardboard, or a ripped piece of wood. Plans on computers are good, but they aren’t great. The plans are not on computers; those are the ones we touch and commit to – each task is an assignment we are giving ourselves, and each time we scratch it off is a measure of achievement. You can’t get there from task…
Microsoft put out this fun article this past week on the Top 40 jobs threatened by AI and those that are seemingly secure. The full article is here. Hats off to the use of Top 40, invoking the vibes of Casey Kasem’s weekly Top 40 that I listened to as a kid for years. In the Top 40, most affected jobs… #5 Authors and Writers – Because we no longer will want creative, innovative thoughts…
Reading the comments of those who came before me and writing my own comments in moments of frustration have always been the greatest outlets for any developer. Remember those times where you checked in code 7x in 15 minutes, thinking this was the LAST fix, but it wasn’t? Those comments were golden. Or when you finished a mammoth task and committed it to main and wrote “Here goes nothing?” Or maybe it was as single…