If you have to put up this many signs to tell people where not to go, you know something is missing in your design. Our phones are not littered with “Don’t click here”, “Don’t touch this button”, or “Don’t do this” – nor are our houses. If we did this to our software, people would stop using it. If you have to tell people what not to do before they do anything, you might want…
How often did you hear this growing up? “Sit up or you’ll be a slouch forever!” When was the last time someone said it to you? Did they finally give up on you? Did it ever resonate with you or do you still slouch? Is it one of those things that never caught on? I’m not the best at Sitting Up and often find myself, reminding myself to do it or seeing someone else slouching…
Are you a rockstar? A ninja? A guru? An expert? A 3x allstar? Or are you simply confident enough in your abilities that you don’t need to be measured by labels and will let you be the measurement of how good you are? Your abilities, your skills, your attitude, your composure, everything you bring to the table – that says how good you are. Good people need to hear how good they are on an…
Not where you hoped you would be? Not at the job you think you should have? Didn’t get through the first interview round? Your certification exam took a slight detour? You can look at these as either setbacks or steps to growth and learning. If you yearn for nostalgia, screenshot them, put them in a folder, forget about them, and revisit them in 3 years, then ask yourself was it a setback or a step…
Everything can and will go wrong. Your plans will go sideways. The idea you had to build on a platform, that platform went bust. What you thought would work, will no longer work. The API interface you are building against will be deprecated in 3 months. You can either rant and rave about the situation you’re in, about everything going wrong, or you can embrace the calamity and chart a new path. Five years ago,…