I don’t think you can ever go in search of a Mentor. You might read about someone and decide that they are like you, but you won’t know until you sit down and talk with them. Because they are famous does not mean that the two of you will click immediately. I think it happens organically, over time, through successes and failures, and in some instances, you won’t even realize it until it’s over. It…
There is a path between two problems that are often ignored and generally occurs between two opposing sides. Some call it the middle ground, but it’s simply another option for getting work done. Sometimes there is no middle ground or way in between, other times, a good number of times, there are more options here than we could ever believe. The problem is being willing to look at them, that’s where we stumble.
It doesn’t need it – your code – it doesn’t need to be defended. You don’t need to cite why it is excellent, works, and shouldn’t be changed and how the problem must be elsewhere. Because if it’s running, if it’s doing the thing you built it to do, if it’s scaling, if it’s handling errors and not losing them and if it’s taking a hit but keeps on running. Then that is all the…
Lately, I’ve been working on a few projects where I find we are doing the same things over and over again that we have done for years. Security implementations that are either overtly cumbersome or miss out on base security role implementation requirements End to End trace logging through back-end systems. Performance Injection for how bad something is going without having to rebuild the code each time Distribution of Notifications Frameworks that scale as they…
Never have been, never will be. We keep trying to solve them with technology, but they aren’t. The problem with meetings is that we all have different expectations of what they should and should not be, who should be invited, when they should begin, what their value is, and what should happen before and/or after them to make them a success and whether they should be on a recurring basis or not. But we don’t…