4 months ago
You never peak. If you don’t want to. If you keep learning, you never peak at learning. If you keep running, you never peak at running. If you keep trying, you never peak at trying. There is no peak; there is just another peak to attain.
4 months ago
Since the new year, everyone on my LinkedIn feed has become an expert. I don’t know what happened over Xmas, but everyone is now an expert. Which is scary, because if everyone is an expert, who is doing the learning? And if we all became experts over the 3 week Xmas break, why aren’t we selling that? And if you learned everything, how did you apply it to your job immediately to become an expert? How did this happen? Don’t worry – not everyone’s an expert, keep to your path, focus on your work – incremental gains and deliver. There
4 months ago
I remember when we had to do this in grade school, when the teacher would ask us to mark our own work. Some would give themselves an A+. Others would be too hard on themselves, almost failing themselves. And some would give enough to say – “yeah, good start, but you have more to do.” The ones that didn’t give themselves an A+ are the ones that learned from an early age, it’s not the grade that matters but the work.
4 months ago
Many years ago, we had a sign for who broke the last build. It was the earliest days of accountability, code reviews, and unit tests. Did you break it? Fix it. Did you break it? Your code must be running well. It was the earliest form of accountability in software development. As we progressed into the hype of the startup world, it also became a badge of honour that you were pushing the envelope, trying new things to make things work, not giving up, and going against the grain. In all the cases of builds being broken, you always learned
4 months ago
The worst thing you can do these days is ask for the answer. Not having asked ChatGPT. Not having followed up with Claude. Not reading one or two of the denizens of blogs out there on the subject you’re looking for. If you’re not coming to the table with the formulation of an answer, an idea of what could or could not be, or even a suggestion on what’s next. You’re not looking for the answer; you want someone to do it for you.
