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…
If you can’t change your plans, you shouldn’t be planning. This isn’t a complicated post – if you aren’t willing to change your plan – you shouldn’t be planning. Because plans always change.
Fixes are minor annoyances that bug us and hold us back. Add a label, change the field, move a button to the right, add a new page, clean up the navigation, add in some extra fields, show this as a grid, use a different UI widget, etc, etc. Fixes are a long list, they are the backlog that drags on forever that you open up and say – “Does this stuff still matter?” They do,…
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…