This is the general response when something isn’t going well, we blurt it out in a moment of frustration as we throw our hands up in the air. There is another response though, one that doesn’t get used often enough. Here, let me show you. We don’t say offer that enough, because it takes more time and energy.
I fall down… a lot. No matter how much experience you have, how many GURU, EXPERT, ROCKSTAR titles you have, you will fall over. You won’t stick the landing every time. And who wants to do that. I eschew the day where I stick the landing perfectly without even trying. Because than I’m no longer falling over, I’m just standing there, afraid to fall over.
The truth is you might need to learn something now, and perhaps you needed to learn it yesterday or last week but you didn’t. Maybe it’s a course in your Udemy catalog or a webinar you wanted to attend, signed up for, but never attended. That’s okay because you have Now and Now is better than Never.
We want to come up with concepts that stick. Ideas that make people stop talking in a meeting and go – “whoa, that’s a great idea, and then we could do this, or this or this”. But the true testament to whether an idea is sticky is whether we see that person again, they are still thinking about it. Make your ideas sticky, make them so sticky, people can’t put them down and they keep…
I came across this article last week on StackOverflow – The Great Resignation as it applies to Software Developers. It’s a pretty good read – unfortunately, it’s nothing new – all of these elements of being a software developer existed before – all the Pandemic has done has made them visible (more so before). Burnout is not new, the term might have even been invented by Software Developers. The section on “Challenges for Managers and…