David Tate

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Chaos-Proof Your Marriage with Monkeys

Chaos-Proof Your Marriage with Monkeys

The best thing that happened to our marriage is my wife getting so sick that she couldn’t walk down the stairs more than a few times a week. She was pregnant with twins and was having a side-effect of having hives all day and feeling sick. We saw

Halfway to Self-Help

Halfway to Self-Help

I used to think that self-help books were complete garbage. Every self-help book featured a high-energy person that seemed like they would be a bit much to handle in a stuck elevator. They came off as un-intellectual; most of the books were centered around one common-

How to Generate Content for Your Blog

How to Generate Content for Your Blog

Heard some great advice recently that I’d like to pass along. When writing a developer blog there is a tendency to try to be smarter than you are – you follow blogs and read books and you want to make something as good, interesting, and relevant as they are. So

Lessons on Hiring and Networking

Lessons on Hiring and Networking

I have been working as a software developer for over a decade to the point in my career where I know hundreds of people that are in my same line of work and can thus give (and receive) meaningful help for people in their career as they try to find

Finding Balance

Finding Balance

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You’ve unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else Ricardo Semler 28 Sep 2007 One of the greatest benefits of a

Personal Retreats

Personal Retreats

Every year I take a weekend to myself and go on a personal retreat. This tradition started years ago when I took a sick day from work and rode my bike from Atlanta to Alabama and back. When I returned I felt like I had been on vacation for weeks:

What I Learned from Briefly Sharing an Office with Steve Jobs

What I Learned from Briefly Sharing an Office with Steve Jobs

Get Started Early Steve used to come in real early. By the time I got there I could see evidence that he had already been there — discarded coffee cups, little crumbs of food, a mild odor in the air — he had obviously been there for hours. Haters and self-doubt