On a recent episode of The Sniffing Markers Podcast, we talked about Fear and Anxiety and which ways we both try to get over it. Not being a psychologist in any way, shape or form the only way I have ever found to work through my own Anxiety is to break it into as many steps as possible and tackle each one at a time. Each alone are minuscule and useless, but together they can get…
How do you start designing a solution without understanding the requirements? How do you start building the marketing campaign without knowing your audience? How do you starting testing for performance when you don’t know the baseline to start from? You definitely can start doing all these things, no one is stopping you. But you will miss the mark simply because you and your team didn’t understand the problem when they started working on it. And…
There is always an opportunity to teach. A failed attempt. A bad deployment. A missed requirement. A wrong code path. A performance review gon awry. A deadline missed. The question is whether you are going to turn all those opportunities into a moment or let them pass you by for someone else to take the lead and do so.
It’s easy to forget. You are working late at night, looking around the room and seeing only you. You are first one in, in the morning, looking at your IM list and seeing only you online. You post questions on your SLACK channel, that you later respond to. The frustration rises up inside of you as you can’t believe that no one else is around to help you when you need it and that you…
The greatest feeling of any project? The end is in sight, you can see the light. All the late nights and early mornings of coding and working are finally coming to fruition. Everything you planned for is progressing just as you expected it would. The planets are aligning. It’s the greatest feeling in the world. And at the same time, it’s always met with the same set of questions? “That’s it? We’re done?” To which…