Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Other Die (by Chip and Dan Heath) is one of the books I revisit at least once a year. My memory is failing me about where I found this book — maybe seeing it…
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Professional Development – 2014 – Week 44
Dates covered: October 27 – November 2, 2014 (week 44 of 52) Career Career planning: Disaster recovery (via The Morning Brew) Career planning: Mine (via The Morning Brew) Culture You Are Not A Machine. You Are Not Alone. (via Smashing Magazine) The Couch…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 43
Dates covered: October 20-26, 2014 (week 43 of 52) Culture Your Community Door (via Jeff Atwood) What If We Could Weaponize Empathy? (via Jeff Atwood) The Evil “Tests” Job Interviewers Can Give (and How to Avoid Them) (via Lifehacker) Process, and Culture (via…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 42
Dates covered: October 13-19, 2014 (week 42 of 52) Communication Always Bet on Text (via Jeff Awtood) Culture The Humanized Expert Beginner (via Eric Dietrich) The Old Guard (via Michael Lopp) The Code Warriors (via Eric Dietrich) Getting Drunk off Our Own Kegerators…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 41
Dates covered: October 6-12, 2014 (week 41 of 52) Culture Why Nerd Culture Must Die (via Christine Jones) Trouble at the Koolaid Point (via Aly Fluckey, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Jen Myers, and Sean Mize) Successfully leading engineering teams (via Rich Rogers) Professionals…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 40
Dates covered: September 29 – October 5, 2014 (week 40 of 52) Business IT as profit center versus cost center: State of the argument (via ZDNet) Career The Career Advice You Probably Didn’t Get (via TED) 5 Mistakes to Avoid in Your One-On-Ones With…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 39
Dates covered: September 22-28, 2014 (week 39 of 52) Culture The Narrative Fallacy: Why You Shouldn’t Copy Steve Jobs (via Lifehacker) Developers are calling it quits on polyglot programming (via Brian Friesen) Five Questions I Wish I’d Asked Before Quitting My Job…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 38
Dates covered: September 15-21, 2014 (week 38 of 52) Note: This week is a bit light because I was on vacation at Folly Beach, SC. Culture The Tipping Point (via Phillip Andreason) Outsiders by Design (via Freakonomics Radio) Corporations Aren’t Recruiting…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 37
Dates covered: September 8-14, 2014 (week 37 of 52) Culture Representing Programmers as if They Were Celebrities (via Greg Jorgensen) The Lost Art of Candor in the Workplace (via Lifehacker) The Secret Sauce (via Lifehacker) The Operating Model That Is Eating The World…
Meetings are for Collaboration
Humans are social creatures, so meetings of one form or another are par for the course both for personal or business reasons. Why meetings (tend to) suck People don’t like to have their time wasted. Most of us are busy…