December 31, 2020
I was reading this article about how the Norwegians get through winter and one line, in particular, blew me away. This is easy enough to change; simply refuse to participate in the Misery Olympics. It’s not going to be an easy start to the year, it’s not going to be the same January 1st as it has been for so many years of your life. But you have a choice on what you want to do with it. And no one can tell you which way you want to go with it.
December 30, 2020
If you want to play hockey, go get a hockey stick and puck and go play. If you want to build a house, go read the building code and build a house. If you want design websites, download Paint.NET and start painting. If you want to write for a newspaper, start writing articles and submitting them to as many newspapers as you can (or start your own blog). If you want to draw comics, get some paper and pencils, start drawing and publish your own comic. If you want to start coding, download NotePad++ or Visual Code or something else,
December 26, 2020
Someone posted this on Facebook. If you don’t know who Jack Kirby is, in short, a visionary man that has given you much of the entertainment and ideas we all consume now. In a time when we are all struggling with changes to learning and work, I love this one line – “You Make Your Own School”. Take a read of the below, it gets even better…
December 24, 2020
Whatever the event. The anticipation is nie. The mood is high. Everyone is on high-alert. You are trying to think logically, structurally, clearly but you can’t all the times. The emotions and excitement are getting in your way. Everyone is smiling and excited. They don’t know what’s about to happen, but they know something will and they trust you, that it will be something great. That’s how every release should feel. That’s how you need to make every release feel. That’s the goal.
December 18, 2020
There is a phrase people don’t want to hear too much. Accountability. Years ago, I remember hearing my former team complaining about a session they had to have with an external trainer on “Accountability” and how it bothered them so much. “We were told we had to start owning what we worked on.” Even though they already were, the hidden message they were all reading was – “We have to start owning what we work on and everything that came before us” – which is impossible. There is a difference between having your team being accountable and micromanaging them. In
