February 21, 2020
This is the best way to start off a discussion with your team that in one simple question posits three in their own mind. Where are we now? Where do we want to go? Are we taking the right steps to get there? It’s the kick-off to any discussion on who you want to your team to be and how you want them to do it. The What will come as a result of asking them this question.
February 17, 2020
If you are consistently restarting a project, starting a class over, wiping your IDE to start afresh page of code the problem might be in not understanding what you’re actually trying to deliver. When we don’t know what someone wants at the end, we keep adding stuff until it looks like something no one would want – so we REBOOT – and start again. And then we start doing a whole bunch of work, much better this time, maybe a bit more cleaner, but still not exactly what we intended to build – so we consider REBOOTING one more time.
February 11, 2020
I received this exact email in my inbox a few months ago (formatting and content preserved). Hi {{First Name}}. I’m [My Name], a [College Name] student from [City]. In the past three years, I’ve helped my clients generate an additional $250,000 in revenue, and have worked for major brands across Canada and the United States through my web development agency, [COMPANY]. I came across your [INDUSTRY] site, and it hasn’t been updated since [YEAR]. Here’s a mock-up of what your site could look like: [Link to WordPress template in their niche, through a subdomain of mine] Your new site will
December 10, 2019
I asked a question on a forum last week and the next day I had received a badge for asking the question. Not helping with the question. Not answering the question. Not solving the question. But I got a badge because I asked the question. This wasn’t a revolutionary question either – more of a – how do you do this because what I’m reading doesn’t work. Anyone can ask a question on a community forum but should they get a badge for it? If the goal is to ask as many questions as you can, then sure give them
December 5, 2019
If you’re working with a team and no one is following you then you haven’t done the work necessary to reach them. If you haven’t done the work necessary to reach them, then you are focusing on the wrong things. If you are focusing on the wrong things, your team doesn’t know what to work on next. If your team doesn’t know what to focus on next, they are going to produce “meh” work. If you want to elevate them to doing great work, you’re going to have to get them follow you. Cycles never go out of style.
