Write it Down. Get it out on any piece of paper possible, scrap, moleskin notebook, line sheet paper, post it, birch bark, whatever. Whatever is in your head, write it down, get it on paper, put it to the side and then look at it the next day. You don’t need a fancy notebook, but if that works do it. Just write it out.
No one wants to be the last pick, but eventually we are. Whether it’s the school you want to attend, the job you want, the dodgeball team, etc, etc. Sometimes you are the last pick. What matters next is what you do knowing you were the last pick. Do you sit and complain about being the last pick or do you move forward and do something with it? Prove why you shouldn’t have been the…
That works in TV and Movies – pull up a screen (any screen) – blip, blap, bloop and you’ve got a working system that is up and running and ready to save the world. Of course that isn’t how it works ever. It takes time, patience, consistency, showing up each day, not throwing in the towel, going back to the drawing board, dealing with the setbacks, trying again and again. And have we mentioned the…
No I don’t. Not even close. I know things you don’t know and vice-versa. That’s the beauty of working with a team, you don’t have to be the expert at everything, you don’t have to know it all. The best advice I ever got for leading a developer that outclassed me in every area – “I won’t be able to help you with coding, but I am going to help you with all that other…
The Last Bug before any release is the one where everyone is standing over you, wanting it to get done. It’s been an irritation the entire release, you’ve pushed it off more times than you can count, it’s driving you nuts. The worst part is, that you don’t even know what is causing it. But when you figure it out, when you realize what was causing it, when the fix is right in front of…