The morning routine is the 15 – 30 minutes of your day that you need to set yourself up for success. Breakfast on the run? Reading? Doing a puzzle? Writing down the days tasks? Going for a walk? Whatever it is, it’s that time, where you set yourself up for success for the day you have in front of you. If you hit your routine each day, it’s been a great day.

We all have them, and they aren’t people – it’s the one thing that stops you in your tracks and frustrates you to no end. For me it’s TLS and certificates, it’s a pain, I’ve tried learning it over and over again.  I have bashed my head against the table on this subject over and over again.  I secretly hope it is replaced by something much simpler – i.e., SECURITY_ON and SECURITY_OFF Other people get…

If you’re building tools for your users to use. It would be important to ask them… How are they going to use it? What will make them wake up every day and use it? Why do they need to have this? How will it save them time and why? All these questions are about your users and what they need from it.  We sometimes think we have the answers, but we often don’t. We have…

New Initiatives need a champion, they need someone to take the lumps and hits and push forward on them. New Initiatives are never easy, because the resistance is great and the pushback is real. That’s why initiatives need champions, with backpacks, because they have a lot to carry.