August 3, 2023
Don’t complain. Don’t argue. Don’t pontificate. Don’t procrastinate. Just sit down (or standup) and do the work that is in front of you. It will be much faster than all of the above and you might it was more enjoyable by not doing all of the above.
August 2, 2023
The bare minimum of your application should do everything that is important to your application perfectly. If it needs to fall over gracefully, it should fall over and come back to life. If it requires logs that anyone can read, they should reference KB articles. If they are connecting people, it should connect people. If they make calls, they should make calls. If it is meant to draw a picture, it should draw the picture. The bare minimum of your application is why people buy it, everything else is an extra bonus. Being able to print the picture I drew
July 30, 2023
Any job has a stressful component to its delivery. No job is perfectly stress free (sorry) and some are much more than others. Yes, pizza lunches don’t solve the bigger problem, but when bought from your manager’s pocket for the benefit of their team – yes, it is worthwhile and can be appreciated as they try to do something with all that they have available to them. Perhaps it won’t solve all the problems, but maybe it will provide a few hours of levity, laughs, and overall silliness as everyone bonds toward making things better with what they have.
July 27, 2023
Sticky Notes make your tasks look simple. They lay it out. They come in different colours. They get assigned to different people. They make it all, make sense. But they don’t do the work, they don’t start doing the work. Most times, they sit there chirping at you for not doing the work. Doing the work is where you come in, what you are here for. To take each note, do the work, crumple it up, and throw it away. How you do it is entirely up to you.
July 24, 2023
Out of Office started as a physical associate with a building. You were either in the building or out of it – hence the auto-response. But now we are here, there, and everywhere and most of the time we are outside of the office. Presence engines use “Not Connected”, “Offline”, “Unavailable” or “Away” to explain when someone cannot take an instant message or call and this is shown by a variety of colors of icons as to when and where they are, sometimes with little notes attached. We’ve placed the focus on “alerting” people that we are out of the office when what
