“No, but I can learn it.” That’s all I need to hear in an interview, if I can hear that, I don’t need to dissect whether you know something or not or what level of syntax you know. That tells me that you are honest in what you know but you are driven to learn something new and contribute to our team by going beyond what is asked of you. What more could you want?
The question your team will ask over and over again if they don’t understand your vision, or if they forget, or if they get lost along the way. It can be frustrating for a leader to hear that after they have poured so much into making it happen, into making it worthwhile, into making it something only to be hit a dismissive – “Why are we doing this?”. Make sure they always know it, make…
Your membership has privileges. If you’ve been a member somewhere for a few years, that should buy you some goodwill – a thank you, some forgiveness if something goes wrong, a check-in, etc. That’s the whole point of membership – being part of something that people care about. We’ve devolved membership to be “Sorry to see you go.” as opposed to “What did we miss?”. If you’re building a program that requires membership, start first…
Whether it’s an office, a place of residence, a new job, school, whatever – Moving Day is always an exciting day. It’s the day where you take your “stuff” from Point A to Point B. And when you get to Point B, you get to change how you set it up before, you get to try something different, you get to rearrange everything. Moving Day shakes up the status quo in a way that keeps…
There are many stories of developers retiring and going into the forest, dropping all technology behind them and just being with nature. I don’t think this is true for just developers but for any job where there is a great deal of complexity that lives within our minds where the simple task of “dumping” everything out is cathartic and our minds are left to wander. Oddly enough, part way through emptying my wandering mind I…