When you don’t know what you’re doing, I mean, quite honestly, you have no idea what you’re doing and you’re doing it for the first time – you have no idea what will happen when something goes wrong. “I didn’t realize – EVERYTHING – was using that component I was working on and now everything is down” (Never happens). But the more first times you go through, the more you think on your actions, the…
The only thing in a title that matters, is what you want to matter. If you need it to say, Senior, that matters to you. When I was a junior, getting out of being called a Junior mattered a lot. I struggled with being called a “Senior” because then everyone thought I had the answers (I didn’t). At my first company, I made up a title so I had one, then realized I had to…
The evening summary is the look back at what happened during the day. What worked? What didn’t work? What do you need to do differently? Its a 5 – 10 minute reflection on the day on where your priorities lie for tomorrow.
The morning routine is the 15 – 30 minutes of your day that you need to set yourself up for success. Breakfast on the run? Reading? Doing a puzzle? Writing down the days tasks? Going for a walk? Whatever it is, it’s that time, where you set yourself up for success for the day you have in front of you. If you hit your routine each day, it’s been a great day.
We all have them, and they aren’t people – it’s the one thing that stops you in your tracks and frustrates you to no end. For me it’s TLS and certificates, it’s a pain, I’ve tried learning it over and over again. I have bashed my head against the table on this subject over and over again. I secretly hope it is replaced by something much simpler – i.e., SECURITY_ON and SECURITY_OFF Other people get…