The results that we show people, they look nice, impressive and blow our minds. But the work to get there, isn’t easy. It most likely required any combination of the following; Repetitive action.Extensive Practice outside of what everyone else does.Fighting back the impostor and feeling like you aren’t good enough.Trying out new ideas that failed initially, everyone laughed at but now you have mastered.Doing your best work but knowing it could be better.Struggling with keeping…
Each time I sit down to write new code. Learn a new API. Write a new Post. Learn a new technology. Anything, whatever it is that is brand new, there is that first 5 minutes of “I have no idea what I’m doing and this is going to be a complete and utter mess” that goes through my head where I try and talk myself out of the work that I should be doing but…
No, it’s not something I wrote. At the last conference I attended (going back to 2016), I attended Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference. On the last day, the last session made the entire conference entirely worthwhile. I would have paid the conference fee to attend this session again. The talk is given by James Whittaker and is such a great talk on the need for creativity in everything we do. I’ve watched some of his other…
If you’re demonstrating a feature, your audience wants to see the feature in action, not a PowerPoint presentation. If you’re talking about timelines, then don’t tear apart each individual user story, spending 10 minutes on the ins and outs of each one. If you’re talking about sales projections, show them forecasts and numbers, not word documents. Too often we know what our audience needs to see, but we aren’t willing to show it them because…
You’d be surprised, at the end of the meeting, how no one wants to hear this question. Because it’s quiet. And they don’t all agree. And they are at the point where it would be better to leave then to continue sorting out the issues of what would get them to the final answer. So no, everyone doesn’t agree and they might not get to that at point. But if you don’t ask that question…