November 19, 2022
Specialize, Specialize, Specialize. Own and find your niche, focus on the niche and nothing else. But you can own multiple niches. You can specialize in multiple areas. And what you learn in one will inevitably help you in what you need to do to master the other. The only time it’s scary to be a generalist is when you make assumptions for things you don’t because you have gone as deep as you need.
November 16, 2022
If you’re looking to learn something new, growth does not matter in your current skillset. If you’re looking to level up your knowledge from junior to senior, growth will come from niche focus. If you’re looking to become a better leader, the answers to growth will not come from your code. If you need to become a better coder, growth might not come from a generalist conference. The key is to find out and ask yourself the question, where do you want to grow and what steps do you need to take to get there, after that you’ll know what
November 12, 2022
If you want to use someone else’s “thing”, like an API or SDK, you are going to have to learn to use it the way they intended for it to be used. Because it was their idea, their proposal, their purpose and they put it all together in a way that makes sense to them that hopefully others will buy into. It’s their Schema for how to do the work. And if you want to get the most out of it, you’re going to need to learn to understand their schema and what every piece means if you want to
October 31, 2022
The hardest part of any problem-solving exercise is trying to find the right question to ask. The one that goes beyond the symptoms and looks at the root cause of what is happening and what you need to do to go forward to make it work. In some situations, it’s the question we don’t want to ask, the one we don’t want to acknowledge because changing our question to the right one would be an acknowledgment that we were initially wrong. But you weren’t “wrong”, you were simply figuring out how to get there – and as long as you’re
October 28, 2022
We all know about the group work exercise where only a few people carry the load of the entire group. Where only a few show up from the first day to the last. Where only a few do what is required and go beyond what is asked for the success of the group. Now imagine if everyone in the group was contributing at that level what could be accomplished? That there is the difference between a good team and an amazing team.
