If you receive different answers and varied responses to the question “What’s Happening?” – then the answer is – “No one knows.” And that’s where you need to start to make things better.
The Last Bug is always the most satisfying to fix. It doesn’t matter what status it has associated with it, what state it is in, or how long it takes. It’s the icing on the cake and it’s the greatest feeling to ship it and call it a day. Until the next bug comes in and you have to start all over again… then that becomes the last bug.
They don’t do Hurdles on Hills. Probably because it would be insanely difficult. No one would ever think to try it. You would probably get hurt more often than not. But if you did do it, you would probably develop muscles you never knew you had to propel yourself further up the hill, against gravity past the hill. You would probably need to be more aware of your surroundings when pushing up and you would…
The implicit goal behind any training is growth. It can mask itself in a job, in a game, or in the final outcome of a hobby. But it’s everything before that, which is growing and which matters to those big moments. And yes, training is hard, that’s because you can’t always see the end while you’re doing it. That’s why it’s called training.
How many wrong ways are there to do remote? So many. I don’t know if it has gotten worst or better. I miss the days of Remotely Prepared and all the conversations we had because I learned so much about what I should and should not be doing. I feel like we learned so much being in that bubble. And yet, I feel like we still have so much to learn. Like for instance -…