January 18, 2022
The Most Ignored Social Media Features
Blocked, Snooze and Unfollowed. You don’t need to read everything everyone is saying. You don’t need to get pulled into it all. And most importantly, you don’t need to see it.
Articles for category: Growth
January 17, 2022
Forced Pauses
Take a moment and think about what you are doing and why you are doing it. If it doesn’t make sense, don’t do it. If you can’t see it working out, don’t do it. Take a pause, tell people you are taking a pause. When we press pause on a show, it’s to go and do something, some other priority is nagging us (bathroom, food, talk to someone, etc) – we pause and go deal with the larger priority at hand. You can’t talk to three people at once, get a bite and keep watching your show and actually get
January 16, 2022
The Plumbing is Everything
Plumbing connects destinations together in the most efficient manner possible. Roads are plumbing that connects cities. The wire is plumbing that connects the internet to our laptops. Wifi is the plumbing that connects routers to our phones. Want to make good software? Get the plumbing right, you never want your customers to be complaining about the plumbing, it should always “just work”.
January 14, 2022
A New Remotely Prepared
I’m pretty proud of what we’ve done with Remotely Prepared over the last two years. We’ve spoken with more people than I ever thought we would and we’ve spun it into 4 amazing seasons of content around working remotely and getting the most out of your team. For the last few months, we’ve been talking about taking it in a different direction and now we are at that point. Starting with our latest episode, we’ll be moving to a more weekly, episodic delivery no longer focused on themes but on whatever content grabs us at that point in time. It’s
January 13, 2022
Your Team’s Value
Software teams get called out for being costly more often than not. Salaries never seem to shrink. They need high-running machines to write code on. They need additional software and tools to show where they are, how they are progressing, and when they might be able to deliver code to end-users. They need build machines and extra devices to make things work. They have questions (oh the questions, how cruel to ask questions). And this is all if everything is running smoothly and there are no problems. If all you were looking at were those statements, your brain would immediately