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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

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