April 21, 2022
I love meeting new people and hearing about their hacks to productivity. My favourite part about chatting with Stefan Zavalin was that you don’t start going 8 hours with a Standing Desk on Day One – you do a little each day and keep building on that success. It sounds like common sense and it’s the reminder we need. The full episode is here.
April 20, 2022
The key to a good tweak is simple, do it at the right time and don’t blow up what exists. Switching tires that you have a hunch might do better on the last lap – good tweak. Wanting to replace the engine on the last lap – bad tweak. The key is doing it at the right time and not putting yourself into such a hole that you can’t recover if it doesn’t work it out. That’s why it’s a tweak and not a change.
April 16, 2022
Fixing bugs isn’t the problem. Figuring out how they occur, now that’s the problem. That’s where we get hung up and where we spend the bulk of our time. That’s where we grind the gears trying to figure out what we are doing and what the next should be. And though this is the hardest of steps, it’s the most rewarding, we learn the most from them. If someone just gave us the answer and told us to put X code in Y line, we would never learn anything. We would simply learn how to be great cut and pasters
April 15, 2022
Growth doesn’t happen all at once, in one day, or when you go to sleep. It happens when you show up each and every day and chip away at what it is you are trying to succeed at. It happens because you’re not willing to give up and keep going back to the desk, the computer, the notebook and make it happen. But it starts with realizing that you can’t cram it in to a one week training session.
April 14, 2022
You have an idea. You have a direction. You can see the path. But it means nothing if you don’t execute it. If you can’t take the team end to end. If all you are going to do is talk about the promised land, all they are going to do is hear about it and they need much more than that from you. They need the work, they need the structure, the content, the information. And they need it in the form that you learned about it. Knowledge transfer is never easy, but when done right, it can be the
