Dates covered: April 6-12, 2015 (week 15 of 52) Business Stop playing to win. Instead, do the opposite (via Pluralsight Blog) Career 8 things to do before taking a major career risk (via Pluralsight Blog) Please Direct All Inquiries to My Agent (via Erik…
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Professional Development – 2015 – Week 14
Dates covered: March 30-April 5, 2015 (week 14 of 52) Career Salary Negotiations: Win by Losing (via Erik Dietrich) The Soft Skills Gap (via Phillip Andreason) The Tech Lead Role: Lessons from Ancient Rome (via Erik Dietrich) Career Decisions (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 13
Dates covered: March 23-29, 2015 (week 13 of 52) Career Some Changes to DaedTech Because I Want to Build a Thing (via Erik Dietrich) Too Busy to Network? Make Time With These 15 Tips (via Lifehacker) The Dark Side of Technology Careers Communication…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 11
Dates covered: March 9-15, 2015 (week 11 of 52) Career My 2014 in Review: Or How I Beat Impostor Syndrome (via Phillip Andreason) “The Best Job Description for an Engineer Ever Written” (via Rich Rogers) Build to Learn: Why You Should Make Things…
Kalamazoo X 2015
About the conference/trip This year I was thrilled to finally attend the soft-skills conference, Kalamazoo X. One of the things that drew me to this conference is that it deals with things that transcend any technology and any job at a certain…
Time Poverty
Recently I went looking for some information about how society has responded to the fast pace of change (mainly in technology). My thoughts were geared toward things like open-source software and lower cost of entry into tech fields (e.g., 3D…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 10
Dates covered: March 2-8, 2015 (week 10 of 52) Career The Surprising Benefits (and Pitfalls) of Being a “Jack of All Trades” (via Lifehacker) Worry About Keeping Your Next Job, Not Your Current One (via Lifehacker) How to Answer “Why Do You…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 12
Dates covered: March 16-23, 2015 (week 12 of 52) Career To fight or not to fight: how to know when to go to battle for an idea (and how to win) (via Rich Rogers) The Idea Person (via Software Lead Weekly) The…
Generalist or Specialist
This morning I read Greg Jorgensen’s post entitled “The things you need to know to do web development” and was in awe at the dizzying array of moving pieces that are part of Web development these days. As a disclaimer, my day…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 9
Dates covered: February 23-March 1, 2015 (week 9 of 52) Career How to Have a Better Career in Software (via Pluralsight Blog, recommended by Cameron Presley) Team of Teams: The Big SCRUM Series (via David Starr) Nobody Hates Software More Than…