March 1, 2025
Your toughest, most critical opponent will always be yourself. You will be hardest on yourself before the game, meeting, lecture, discussion has even begun. The goal is not to. The goal is to quiet the toughest opponent in your head, tell them to come out when you need them, when you need that extra kick, that last push. And never before. Not before you’re started.
February 27, 2025
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 forced into it, the second was when everyone embraced it, and now we are at the wave of – we need everyone back because we’re
February 24, 2025
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 opportunity. Want to get better at something, practice doesn’t always lead to perfection, but it will lead to improvement, no matter which way you look
February 23, 2025
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 were afraid of how you looked? How dare you not understand what was being taught to you in the last 10 minutes for the first
February 22, 2025
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 are looking for you to ship and wanting to see from you every day. Because you ship your product, each and every day, that’s how
