June 17, 2023
I like to think that it’s completely up to you, you are in complete control of what comes next and where you go from here. You might not have chosen how you got here or what you did, but now that you are – what comes next is entirely up to you. You can complain about it, or do something about it.
June 15, 2023
No one likes the Hiccups. No one asks for the Hiccups. Getting rid of the Hiccups is an exercise in trying a variety of cures that might work for some people but not all (which further exasperates us). And eventually, they go away, and we move on, and get back to what we were doing in the first place. Truth be told, we have Hiccups every day, they just don’t make that annoying noise we’ve come to recognize them by.
June 7, 2023
Feedback is great, but should never be relied upon without context in place. The context is what was going on surrounding that particular item. It’s the work that was going on at that point in time. It’s the goals that were trying to be achieved but might not have worked. Feedback is incredibly useful, but only if everything surrounding the feedback is understood.
June 5, 2023
Getting it right requires measuring twice and cutting once. It’s about making mistakes and going back to try again to be better. It’s about the bugs coming in and the updates going out. Not everyone wants to get it right because it means realizing you have work to do and that work never end. But many people do, and those are the people you want on your team.
June 1, 2023
After one release that goes well, you’re perfect. If your second and third ones go just as well, you’ll maintain that perfection. But eventually, the more you do, the greater you open yourself up to the chance that something will go wrong, that you won’t have the perfect release. That your code might blow up. That a bug might get missed. What factors outside of your control will cause you to slip? Because presumably, you are reaching higher and higher each time, aiming to get better and better as you go. So your streak of perfection will end. The question
