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…
There is a shift that happens internally when you take the lead. You’re no longer sitting on the sidelines complaining. You’re no longer putting your hand up in meetings to have your say. You’re no longer asking for permission. You’re taking the reins, you’re mobilizing the team, you’re moving forward. You’re taking the Lead.
A plan can be on a napkin, on post-it notes, a bullet journal, a piece of cardboard, or a ripped piece of wood. Plans on computers are good, but they aren’t great. The plans are not on computers; those are the ones we touch and commit to – each task is an assignment we are giving ourselves, and each time we scratch it off is a measure of achievement. You can’t get there from task…
Reading the comments of those who came before me and writing my own comments in moments of frustration have always been the greatest outlets for any developer. Remember those times where you checked in code 7x in 15 minutes, thinking this was the LAST fix, but it wasn’t? Those comments were golden. Or when you finished a mammoth task and committed it to main and wrote “Here goes nothing?” Or maybe it was as single…
In High School, showing your work on how you solved a problem was a big deal. You could have the correct answer, not show your work, and you were punished for it in your score. “How dare you know the answer and not show how you got there?” How much of your work are you showing now? Are you showing your prompts that you give to Chat GPT? Are you showing the questions you ask?…