October 28, 2023
As often as I forget, I am just as quickly reminded, that all development is on the fly. You can do all the courses, go through all the reading, and understand what is needed where but at the end of it all, you are always doing development on the fly. You are always learning what needs to be done in the moment and figuring out the approach to get there and make it a success – it’s never laid out clearly.
October 27, 2023
Stories save us in learning, they are what help us understand what to avoid, where to go, and what to do. They save the work of trying everything out on your own. They can be simple or complex, but in the end, the value they provide to what you are doing is what makes adoption simpler. They tear down the barriers to growth by getting through the what-ifs. They can make you smile and relax in everything you do. They are the tools that we all need to leverage – tell the story.
October 26, 2023
Try it. Just see. It doesn’t matter if you get it right or wrong, just try it and see. Because if you don’t try it, you’re never going to know what could happen and you’re always going to be left wondering what should happen to make to get there.
October 24, 2023
If you are always winning, you’ll never know what to do when you lose. You’ll never know how to help your team when they are faced with that change in paradigm, when things go wrong when people aren’t there when stuff doesn’t line up. You need that feeling of something going wrong, you need that emphasis of something breaking and having to figure your way out, you need that pressure to know you have to create another path to get out of it. Without losing, you’ll never have those opportunities to do those great things.
October 19, 2023
Start small, master the small, get really scary good at it, keep track of it and how you are doing. And then add more. But don’t add until you’ve mastered the first small thing. Otherwise, it’s simply a set of experiments you are doing (not bad either) but not the goal.
