1 month 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.
1 month 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.
1 month ago
What’s up for grabs these days? Everything. Everything is up for grabs.
2 months ago
The Learner’s Journey starts with knowing nothing. Then they encounter some beginner’s luck and make something happen, possibly even get some praise. So they want to dig in and learn more, get better and stronger, focus more, learn more, maybe even become an expert. And then the hard part starts, they get stuck, they stumble, they realize their growth is plateauing and they need to adjust and twist more. Everyone goes through this, everyone – and when working with those that are on the journey (or if I’m in it), I always equate my growth to how many questions I’m
2 months ago
Conversations about Flow state raged for years – how to get there, how to always be in the zone, how to reduce your context switching so you could stay in it – blogs were built around this topic. AI is always in a state of Flow, it has no context switching, and if it does, it’s not showing up. So the next time you’re in a work call and everyone’s freaking out about AI, remind them that the biggest thing holding your team back is that you still cannot, reliably, get into that flow state.
