September 11, 2024
If You Want Results
You’ll need to put in the effort. No one else will. It’s your dream, it’s your passion, it’s your idea. It’s all yours. Including the effort.
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September 10, 2024
The Unknowable Route
There is a path, you haven’t been on it before, others have, to you it’s unknowable. It’s not the way you would do it. It’s not how you would word it. It goes against how you’ve done things in the past. It flips the script. All these reasons and more… are the reason you need to do it. The Unknowable Route is the one where you don’t know how things will turn out, where you don’t know what will happen, where you don’t know the outcome. You forgot what that feels like because you never had anything to compare it
September 9, 2024
When you get blocked
There are many times I get “writers/coders” block – when trying to do work. Staring at an empty page, an empty class. … … … And all you can do is start, you can start doing something, anything related to it – don’t go off and do something else, do this, that one thing in front of you – take that page, that class file and make it do something. For the next 20 minutes do nothing but fill that page and that class, and when you’re done – you will have something, it might require some edits and refactoring,
September 8, 2024
Growing your Team
Teams grow based on numbers, skills, and deliverables. They don’t grow overnight. It doesn’t happen over an interview. The first time you meet, you are not a team, you are a group project, thrown together to see what you do. It’s your first deliverable that makes you a team and starts your path to growth – what next, what else can we accomplish, who else do we need, what do we do next – these are what will help you grow. And it starts with asking yourself – what is my team’s plan to grow?
September 7, 2024
The Expert of your Field
Your field is your job, your role, your team, what you do, what you deliver, what you bring to the table each and every day. You are the expert of your own field. You are the one best positioned to answer questions and figure out where to go next. You. No one else. You are the Expert of One, and that’s where it starts, believing that and knowing that.