The running joke was that people who didn’t understand technology didn’t reset their VCR clocks. And yet we did it for our alarm clocks, no worries. It’s not because we didn’t have enough knowledge to read the manual, but rather more likely that users in general determined there was no need for a VCR to have a clock when many had a watch and/or were committed to not needing to know the time. When DVD…
In comic books, we call it the gutters – the spaces between panels where the reader envisions the transition, things happening, work being down, and actions happening. In software, this is the space between the tickets you are assigned to work on and the code you write. The gutter exists, stuff happens between those two things, thinking emerges, design happens, and we don’t always know what it all is, but it happens there – it’s…
Are too many tasks coming your way? Is your sprint board weighted down with work you will never get to? Do you start each sprint going – “not a chance”? Are you not sure where to start next or what to do? Sounds like you’re on the verge of being overloaded. The problem is, no one else knows, because we all hide it so well, because we all have varying levels of overload, and because…
You can stare at the ceiling. You can roll down a hill. You can walk in circles. You can throw a ball in the air. You can mouth syllables from your mouth in odd ways. You can make that annoying sound that no one likes but you. You can stare at a tree and think about leaves. Free time isn’t meant to be productive, it’s not meant to achieve something, it’s different than practice, learning,…
On where you are. On how far you have come. On where you are going. On what it will take to get there. We all need these moments in life to recenter ourselves, appreciate how far we have come and what is up next for us, and get ready for it. Take the Moment