Because if it’s not fast, it’s not worthwhile. Because if it’s not fast, the customer won’t buy it. Because if it’s not fast, someone else’s will be. Because if it’s not fast, that means it’s not good. There are so many other ways to measure what you build for someone. Performance is good, but it’s not the only metric. Don’t let your work be evaluated by one metric and make sure everyone knows all the…
The best way to learn is to learn from others. Learn what they have done to become successful. Watch what they do (and stop talking about it). Don’t share the fact that you’re learning from them. Listen to what has and has not worked. And then, ask questions, get feedback on your approach, what are you doing that works and what are you doing that is not. Or, keep doing what you’re doing and hope you…
I love the secret questions. I love knowing when they are coming. When someone asks you something that is not related to the conversation at hand, is completely off-topic and is geared towards ascertaining one and only one thing. Do you know your stuff? The problem with the secret question is that the candidate knows it for what it is – everything you’ve spent the last hour or so talking about is fluff and this…
I still look at emails I want to unsubscribe from and go – “but if I unsubscribe, they’ll know I’m a real person, that I exist, maybe they won’t take me off their list”. And when I do unsubscribe, I immediately get the email back that says – “It might take a week to remove you from our list”. When I picture this, I think of my subscription being sent to headquarters in an envelope…
Every year, we wait for the mythical months of summer to come around so we can finally have our vacation. False. The weather might be better (and the only one who can really say whether it is, is you) but you can take a vacation at any time. Turning off your phone – that’s a vacation. Taking a drive to the middle of nowhere and eating your lunch in solitude – that’s a vacation. Flying…