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Work from Home: An Anniversary

Work from Home: An Anniversary

In honor of Halloween (the absolute best day of the year to work from home) and it being roughly the 7th anniversary of my working this way I’d like to present a few snippets of the last seven years of my work-from-where-I-wish life: * Being involved at my kid’s

The False Dream of a Clear Path

The False Dream of a Clear Path

I have this fantastical daydream that I entertain often: I get a week (or weekend) to myself and I am able to do all the work, all the projects, all the catching up that I want to do. Sometimes I go on a trip to achieve this, or maybe a

Bring Your Own Team

Bring Your Own Team

Now here is an interesting idea: front-loading an aquihire by hiring a functioning team rather that a single person. As many of us know developers travel in packs anyway (I have worked with many former colleagues at new places) so bringing on a pre-existing team is an interesting idea. Some

MVP: Minimum Viable Personality

MVP: Minimum Viable Personality

Software Developers must have a personality to be able to work on a team

The 5-minute Journal

The 5-minute Journal

Focus on your goals by writing them down

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 a

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-sense idea: be positive, think