Your software needs a “Check Engine” light – it’s getting harder to maintain, it doesn’t work as well as it used to, or it’s hard to understand. Better yet, have an engine light for your team. Does everyone know how our software works and what we do? Do we have a scalable group, and are they growing? It should flash red in your eyes, and like your car make you pause. The problem is we…
You can’t do two things at once, but we’re getting close. I can put Claude to work on a problem while I switch to something else. I’m still not doing two things at once, but it now looks like. But if I have to spend time reviewing and integrating what Claude wrote on a greater scale later on, have I done two things at once? Whether it’s minimal time or not? Are we doing two…
I don’t know if there is a peak in our careers anymore. (I’m not sure there ever was, I thought you just kept learning and learning and learning). But now, if anything, I see it as climbing to the top of one mountain, getting there, seeing an even higher mountain, and having to climb back down and climb up again. What we thought as the peak of our careers is constantly evolving and changing, picking…
Right now, most LinkedIn and Instagram posts focus on how you can get to 10x learning technology Y or how you can deliver 15x using AI this. No one is talking about the customer reception or how much they enjoy using the product. If all your customers can talk about is that you’re fast to get the next release out there and not speak to any of your features, they don’t care about what you’re…
Take your work. Take the tasks on your plate. Hand them in the old way, do the base necessary work, do the minimum, do the current trend of “job hugging” or maybe you’re “quiet quitting” and go back to what it is you were doing before. Or do something different. Put your all into it. Be relentless. Be tenacious. Don’t take no for an answer. Dig and dig and dig until you get to the…