I’m not a fanatical advocate for video in our remote life – using it when necessary is my primary motto. When I am on a call and people are not using I don’t mind as long as their focus is on the call, as long as they are listening to what everyone is saying, as long as they are engaged. Video shouldn’t be the stick that makes sure you are listening to meetings. If it…
If you can’t make it a day without lashing out, without listening to other people’s opinions, without ignoring your team to focus on your work, chances are you’re burnt out. Note: Not that you are approaching being burnt out, but you are burnt out. The tell in being burnt out isn’t in the quality of work that you deliver (we’ll see that later on), it’s in how you treat the people around you. It’s a…
Is that everyone is on the same page. You can’t go beyond that. If you have a full day planned and no one can get past that initial concept, don’t go further, you can’t go further, there is no point in going further because no one agrees where they should be going to. The goal is to figure out a plan for X and if you don’t know X, there is no point in moving…
I don’t think “anyone” wants to rewrite their code (or someone else’s for that matter). But sometimes you have to because whatever it is that is being asked of you cannot scale in what you have built. That’s the Software game, sometimes you need to rebuild it and start from scratch. Housing and construction are often compared to building software with many of the same phrases being interchangeable. The same applies to a house, if…
We just finished Canadian Thanksgiving this past weekend and like many people, I was stuffed. It made me think of the last time my brain was stuffed to capacity, overloading and not able to take on anything else. When was the last time for you?