You can go out and do things when the weather is bad. But you don’t want to do it all the time. Who wants to have a picnic day in and day out in the rain, each and every day. No one. Every now and again we’ll make an allowance for it so we can “brave the weather” and not “wimp out” – but doing this day in and day out is enough to have…
But only if they are great. I love a good half-day meeting. If done right, it means business, it means direction and the measurement is simple. Were these 3 or 4 hours more valuable than a bunch of 1-hour meetings spread throughout the week? When done right, they should be. When done wrong, they will be seen as a waste of time that got you nowhere. The key to a great half-day session is to…
“We’ve been delivering based on our fires over the past two months.” That’s what you hear when you are focused on customer issues, in triaging the immediate and getting the fixes out the door before asap, where the customers are beating down the door to get your code to work. And you’ve probably been successful at this, but you can only do it for so long, there are only so many times you can plan…
Starting a habit is hard, and restarting one is even harder. Because you knew the success you had before and you’re worried, scared even, of whether you will ever get back to it. I watched this video on the 100% rule on whether you can truly implement a habit if you are only partially engaged. I don’t know if I can apply it to every habit I’m working through, but there are definitely some interesting…
Is it still an error if no one sees it? Of course, it is. But whether it becomes a bug, well that’s up to you, the Developer, to decide how much you care to fix it.