January 15, 2021
Your code. Your team. How you lead. What project you are working on. What you are learning. Everything, it all breaks at some point. Good. That’s the point, if it doesn’t break, you’re not learning, you’re going through tutorials and motions where everything is isolated and perfect. It’s messy, all of it, it’s supposed to be messy, that’s the point. Break it, make a mess, fix it and grow.
January 2, 2021
Team gets problem. Team starts working on problem. Problem becomes much bigger than initially thought. Team is confused on where to start and begins implementing process upon process to fix problem. In the middle of fixing problem, team realizes they are stuck and are not sure where to go from here. As they start to demonstrate the problem being solved, the customer starts to ask for other things to be done “at the same time”. Progress grinds to a standstill. What’s happened? They let the problem take over, they took the issue that was given to them and began working
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…
