Years ago, I was building a new deck, and there was a curve in the wood. It wasn’t perfect, it was pretty obvious and in my inexperience, I thought we could cover it up with deck boards. I was wrong, it would have looked horrible. Thankfully I had my father-in-law to set me straight. We then proceeded the next 2 hours unscrewing it, hammering, jacking it, doing whatever we could to gain leverage and bend…
Your team deserves to know what the plan is for the next year. They deserve to know what is coming next and what the plans are. They should know when the unknowns are coming at them and they are going to have to pivot and figure the rest out. They should know what the goals are and where you want to take them. Your team is an engine (huge difference from a factory) and if…
Yesterday Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram all took a powder on a global scale. When I went to Facebook, it was a 404, when I went to Instagram, I had what last loaded with a cute message saying it can’t load new items, but all my old ones were cached so I could go check them out. I didn’t bother with WhatsApp. The question isn’t about which one handled it better, which was more graceful or…
I don’t mind the no code movement. But code will never go away. That’s not some kind of die-hard statement on the future of no-code – it will succeed and bring its platform to the masses. But someone is going to have to write all that code. And that’s going to be a lot of fun.
There is never enough time to take a step back and figure out what is wrong. Never. Ever. Until it breaks and then you have a ton of time on your hands to figure it all out, design the perfect solution and fix everything that was wrong. That’s odd, I thought there wasn’t enough time?