I don’t have a demo, but there are a few people I know who this is their thing, this is what they strive towards and toil on, late in the evening and early the morning. Will you listen to my demo? Will you take time out of your day to listen to everything that I have poured into this one cassette, CD, DVD, MP3, iTunes song. There is something great about having someone approach you…
We put way too much stock into working about the Days of the Week and the “core” hours that go along with it. If I can, I make every day of the week different – sometimes I do a drop-off, other times I take my time, I might take a bus or drive, I go into different offices. There are days I work like a madman from seven till noon and then stop for the…
You need those breaks. The space in between. The pauses in what you are doing. The Mindless Time that enables you to stop and think, pull back, think, pause on what you are doing, reconsider what’s next, plan the direction, move forward. Without you’ll always be chasing fires with no goal in mind.
Two weeks ago, Microsoft wrapped up its yearly Ignite Conference and before long, Apple and Google will have their big conferences again. Amazon and Facebook will have theirs. And everything will change again. All that code you wrote will now need to be upgraded to a new platform. That product you were working on was done in half the time by twice as many people. The idea you had is already being worked on and…
No one is born into a role. Everyone wants to a police officer at the age of two, but no one actually is. Just like no one tells you the day you are going to lead a team. It just kind of happens, maybe you had an inkling something was going to change, maybe it was a formal promotion to being a manager but now there it is in front of you – you are…