1 month ago
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 the right mountain to climb is becoming harder and harder.
1 month ago
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 doing – maybe they’re along for the ride. Speed will get you so far – knowing what you do, understanding your product, creating a customer
1 month ago
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 bottom of it. There is a feeling when you complete a task, hand in an assignment, finish a job that you know you have knocked
2 months ago
Okay great. Now that we know that, let’s figure it out. The hardest part about change is acceptance; we get mired in it for a long, long time. And then one day we go ahead and do it, and we realize – “I guess I should have started sooner.” If you accept the change early, you’re already moving faster than many.
2 months ago
If you can’t trust your team to do the boring, grunt, not that much interesting work to the best of their abilities, and pass in top-notch code and effort. Then they definitely should not be working on the cool stuff. Grunt work is the litmus test for whether they can handle the cool stuff.
