Recent news that started in January has many companies forgoing Remote work and having one back in the office. You can search for “remote back to office” and find the results – from some of the biggest companies. We went from supporting Remote Work, setting people up with allowances to improve their home environments to going back to the office. This is the third wave of remote work – the first was when everyone was…
What you put in, is what you get out. If you want to know more, you need to learn more (Udemy courses are cheap and a great Getting Started). If you want to have more experience, find more work (not always the easiest) but you can lower your rates, reach out to groups you wouldn’t normally hit up, market yourself to other companies, engage in freelancing, build “stuff” for yourself while looking for that great…
Are you asking questions to learn more? Are you asking questions to poke holes? Are you asking questions to figure things out? Are you asking questions to find fault? Questions are the best way to figure out what is going on and what you need to be doing. When it comes to learning, we don’t ask them enough. How many times in grade school did you have a question and not want to ask because you…
What product are you shipping? Is it your code? Your writing? Your art? It probably isn’t what you think it is and/or at least not in the tangible form that you would associate with being a typical product. It’s something more, something bigger. Your value. Your integrity. Your work ethic. Your drive. Your delivery. Your initiative. Maybe it’s all these, maybe it’s more – but that’s your product, that’s what you’re shipping, that’s what people…
I see it with other bloggers, I see it with my own writing. I’ll have a spark of a great idea, start writing the draft, and then see that I wrote about it before with that elusive “-2” added to the post URL. I used to get bummed out “I stole my idea” but not anymore. I write the post, I push it out and only then do I go back and look at what…