I’m not going to link it here, but last week I was looking to resolve a coding problem and came across a blog that did a pretty decent walkthrough on how to solve the problem. They had a reference link embedded into the blog article that I then clicked (it went to Microsoft). The link and the blog were verbatim copy and paste with some images added in to differentiate. Don’t Copy and Paste what…
LinkedIn published this list of the Top Companies to work for in Canada. I’m not sure what the criteria was to be on the list but I have a hard-time believing that the Top 9 Companies are all financial. The problem with these lists is that we worry about not being on the list so we tweak our message to get on the list (when it might not even be possible). We want to be…
The first cut. The first deployment. The first delivery. Getting to that point of – “here it is, here is what I am offering” – is the hardest step you’ll take to getting whatever that thing is out the door. What comes next will be the feedback and the critiques you need to make it better but no matter how red or how many bugs get reported. It will never be as hard as getting…
Like most people, I was glued to my tv watching the final season of Game of Thrones. This isn’t a long-winded commentary on what did and did not work, who should have been king, lived or died. This is about context. If you only watched the first six seasons you would say it was a brilliant run – slow-burning, character-driven, dripping with tension at every moment. If you only started watching the last two season…
I have never understood why my dog is so excited to go outside and bark non-stop for 10 – 15 minutes at the world. Even when it is dead silent and no one is around us for miles, he will leap out the door, spend this time barking into the wind and then look back at me sheepishly with a look that says – “What’d I do?” I like to think he’s bounding out into…