They can be draining. Or they can be invigorating. It all depends on the energy you bring to the session. How you start, sets the tone for the day, for what you want to do and accomplish and get done. Contributing is key, the team doesn’t need a silent watcher doing other work. If you are remote, get ready to be on your camera, get ready to be engaged. Stepping out for a few minutes…
We should ask ourselves “How was our day?” Our days are always different and that question alone has such a complex answer to it. Instead, we should ask ourselves. What did we accomplish? What did we deliver? The first question, our brains will go immediately to meetings and emails and we’ll think “Ugh what did I do today?”. But when you start with what you accomplished, what you delivered, all of a sudden all those…
You’re getting near the end of the year. Now is the time to start thinking of the changes you want to make next year. Not 2 hours before the end of the year, or 20 minutes into it. Now. Take the time, roll it over in your head, now is the time.
I’ve been spending a lot of time the last little while, learning perspective in drawing. First off, it’s a crazy number of lines. I mean, there are lines everywhere and you wonder how anything you create is going to turn out. But then, once you’ve designed the grid, laid it out, put it together, and start adding your own components on top of it. Then the value of all those little lines comes together and…
My first job, I can only describe as 12 people crammed into a 2-bedroom apartment. If I moved my head to the left, I would make eye contact with a person 3 ft away, 2ft beside me was another developer and 2 ft behind me were the servers. I once backed into the server and accidentally hit the keyboard triggering a copy. My second job was in a larger building, but they never had enough…