2 months ago
Yeah, you might lose. Yeah, you might not get there. Yeah, you could blow up the launch pad. All horrific reasons are used as excuses to give up the chase when, at that precise moment, the chase is testing you to see if you’ll give up, to see how much you want it, to see how hard you’ll push. Giving up the Chase only hurts you and no one else.
2 months ago
When everything is new, growth moves at lightning speed. “Hey, you’re a natural!” It’s all new, you don’t care, you just go out there, try, fail, and try again – and you keep improving. But then to leap with growth, you need to learn the right techniques, focus on your tools, iterate, iterate, iterate, and you start to worry about failing – because hey, look how far you’ve come, who wants to take a step back. Then it clicks. And the moment it clicks, there is no going back, there is only continued upward momentum, you try and you fail,
2 months ago
My biggest fear of AI is that we will lose the ability to learn how to do our work. We will go ask someone what’s next, what do I do here, and remove the “why” from the equation. When I used to look at Junior Developers, I would measure their value by their questions – if they would ask for the first step, and then not come back until stuck on Step 8, there was some great self-learning and problem solving there. If they came back on Step 2, there was going to be much more hand-holding, and usually those
2 months ago
For many years, I read articles about Basecamp and how they have been able to lead and champion remote work through a completely distributed team. Then we all did it, and most of us failed. And now many are being forced back to the office. Being Remote is about delivering value, and if you’re not delivering value, well, you might as well come to the office so we can feel safe in the knowledge that we “hope” you’ll create some value here. Sadly, this pulls down the people who were being most effective with being remote, getting the most work
2 months ago
It always was the future. But now we’re in the transformation of that Automation, we’re in the era, we’re living through it. It’s all around us in every era of everyone’s jobs. We’re not only changing one industry, but we’re changing all of them, everything, all at once. If everyone can code, does this mean no one is needed to learn how to code or to specialize in it? Or to enjoy it? Are we all just philosophers about to shrink into some unknown niche? Or maybe, we’re seeing the exposure of new jobs and opportunities that will come our
