Dates covered: May 23-29, 2016 (week 21 of 52) Career How to Worry Less about Being a Bad Programmer (via Peter Welch) Communication A Primer on Giving Critical Feedback (via Software Lead Weekly) Management 31 Ways to Know Your Project Is Doomed (via…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 20
Dates covered: May 16-22, 2016 (week 20 of 52) Career Did Programming Stop Being Fun? Let’s Fix It. (via Cameron Presley) Ask HN: If you restarted your career, what would you do differently? (via Software Lead Weekly) I’m a Boring Programmer…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 19
Dates covered: May 9-15, 2016 (week 19 of 52) Career The Software Engineer’s Guide to Depreciating Your Resume (via Cameron Presley) Questions to Ask Your Interviewer (via Software Lead Weekly) Motivation Lean Back to Look Forward (via Software Lead Weekly) Psychology The Psychology…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 18
Dates covered: May 2-8, 2016 (week 18 of 52) Career Implementers, Solvers, and Finders (via The Software Mentor) Being a Developer after 40 (via The Software Mentor) Learn to Love Networking (via Audible Channels) How to Start Speaking (in Tech Conferences) (via Software…
Kalamazoo X 2016
About the conference/trip This is my second year attending 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 company: the ability…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 17
Dates covered: April 25-May 1, 2016 (week 17 of 52) Career 10 Rules of Professional Etiquette for the Digital Workplace (via Lifehacker) Hiring is Broken… And It Isn’t Worth Fixing (via Erik Dietrich) Computational science The Turing test: Can a computer pass…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 16
Dates covered: April 18-24, 2016 (week 16 of 52) Career My Biggest Regret as a Programmer (via The Software Mentor) It’s Not Your Fault: The Role of Environment in Burnout (via Cameron Presley) Culture What US Software Companies Should Understand About The Rest…
May 2016 RPM Mix
Here are my RPM track lists for May 2016. The last time I taught RPM 68 was back in September 2015, and I’ve been wanting to bring back some of those tracks. On the last Sunday, I’ll be doing a 75-minute…
How to Be More Productive
This post is a summary of a Freakonomics Radio episode of the same name. Productivity means different things in different settings, and doesn’t just mean producing more widgets per hour. It’s about how to achieve your goals with less anxiety…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 15
Dates covered: April 11-17, 2016 (week 15 of 52) Career Give Yourself Permission to Have Work-life Balance (via Scott Hanselman) How to Deal When You’re Overcommitted at Work (via Lifehacker) Becoming a Tech Lead: How I’ve Balanced Coding with Coaching (via Software Lead…