December 17, 2020
Nobody “wants” to do the boring work, and yet there it is, always piling up, never going anywhere, until you sit down and start working through the pile. That’s how it works. It doesn’t go anywhere. It doesn’t ask for help. It just sits and waits. Until you do the work to get it done and move onto the next thing. OR, until you figure out a way to get past it being boring, make it valuable, make it important and worthwhile. Than it’s no longer boring work.
December 10, 2020
At the beginning, if you falter, it doesn’t quite matter, you haven’t established anything yet. You can restart and still be okay with things. In the middle, sure you might be in the early stages of Craptivity, and if you have to restart, it will hurt because you put in so much effort to get there. But in the end, when you are closing in on the streak, this close to hitting the record, about to make it happen. That’s when your fingers get jittery, that’s when you feel the adrenaline searching through. And that’s when you know you are
December 9, 2020
You can be a lot of things to some people (probably not a lot). Or you can be a few things to fewer people, but those things that you focus hard on, you can be really good at (scary good) and have the potential to make a greater impact in those people’s lives. Which would you prefer to be?
December 5, 2020
When code comes together it sings. When a connection breaks and your code keeps running, it’s a symphony. When the environment changes and your code reloads and changes to the new dynamic, it’s a masterpiece. When the keywords and text are flying off your fingers and every time you press F5 it builds correctly, it is dreams coming to life. Good Code is Great Art. It’s not a factory. It’s not a user story. It’s not a backlog item. It’s Art.
December 2, 2020
Because no one is going to make them for you. I was in the middle of writing this article about what Great Teams Do and it struck me while writing it that the number one thing that they do – is Make Moves. They don’t get sidetracked. They don’t get stuck. They don’t wait for a status meeting. They don’t wait for bugs to be logged. They make moves. They get out in front of the bug reports. They follow-up before the meetings are made. They stay on point and focus on what is important. They Make Moves. Be a
