When you’re in a canoe by yourself, you control where you go – maybe not that fast- but you can do it all yourself. Add another person and you have someone at the bow and stern (front and back), your power increases two fold. As long as you are going in the same direction. Key to this movement is the stern steers and the bow is power – both can’t steer, both need each other…
There is only one way to get weeds out of the ground – pull them. You might use chemicals or some other miracle compound, but at some point, you’ll need to pull what is left so it doesn’t take root and grow again. Same with Rocks – the only way to move them is to pick them up and put them somewhere else. You can roll them, use a machine, push them up a hill,…
There are jobs that cannot be made to go faster. They can be optimized, they can be tweaked, they can be upgraded. They can have all of these wonderful things done to them, but at some point, they can only go so far, and then what is left for them to do is the job itself. The grinding work. The back and forth. The inputs and outputs. Many years ago, a colleague of mine took…
I don’t know why we still ask for Cover Letters, they are pointless. They are boilerplate, now AI-generated letters that are general highlights of your resume. No one reads them, no one wants to read them. When I was interviewing 4 -5 developers a week for weeks on end, I did not care to see their Cover Letter – show me their resume – show me the goods. Today I wrote a cover letter that…
Sometimes I sit down and try to come up with as many ideas as I can. I’ll set a goal that I will not stop until I write down 25 ideas. Then I get stuck at 15. I used to get up, go do something, try to think of more, but then I realized that was forcing the problem. The best way to get more ideas? Is just to start doing it. Start writing. Start…