Dates covered: July 6-12, 2015 (week 28 of 52) Culture The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong (via Alan Stevens) A Day in the Life of a Programmer (via Alan Barber) Economics The Economics of Sleep: Part 1 (via Freakonomics Radio) Management…
Your Playbook
This is a soft-skills talk presented at CodeStock 2015 and DevSpace 2015. {CodeStock slide deck (~4 MB); DevSpace 2015 slide deck (~20 MB)} play·book – n. a stock of usual tactics or methods. We are builders, solvers, and thinkers — wielders of logic…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 27
Dates covered: June 29-July 5, 2015 (week 27 of 52) Career What Happens When You Stop Relying on Resumes (via Cameron Presley) Office Politics 101 for Recovering Idealists (via Erik Dietrich) Communication A seminar on How To Avoid Death By PowerPoint, full with…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 26
Dates covered: June 22-28, 2015 (week 26 of 52) Career It’s a Large Batch Life for Us (via Erik Dietrich) Do You Sell Your Hands or Your Brain? (via Cameron Presley) Early vs. Beginning Coders (via Cameron Presley) Advice to Software Developer Interns (via Cameron…
July 2015 RPM Mix
Here is my RPM track list for July 2015. July is a busy month for me, so I’ll be launching RPM 67 in August. [table] Track,Title,Artist,Time,Release Pack Ride,Counting Stars,OneRepublic,5:24,62 Pace,Wake Me Up,Avicii,5:57,62 Hills,Tonight,Manian & Nicco,6:21,62 Mixed Terrain,Supersoaker,Kings of Leon,4:59,62 Intervals,Love Me…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 25
Dates covered: June 15-21, 2015 (week 25 of 52) Career My Candidate Description (via Erik Dietrich) Vocation: The Necessity of Dead Work (via Cameron Presley) Delegating Is Not Just for Managers (via Erik Dietrich) Culture Bureaucracy Isn’t Inevitable — Here’s How Airbnb Beat It…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 24
Dates covered: June 8-14, 2015 (week 24 of 52) Career Don’t Learn to Code – Learn to Automate (via Erik Dietrich) Imposter Syndrome Sucks (via Alex Harms) Why one of Silicon Valley’s top investors says ‘don’t follow your passion’ (via Software Lead Weekly) Happy…
RPM 67 Music Review
Part of my process of learning an RPM release is to listen to the music first before doing anything with the choreography. Considering the Les Mills program directors pick the music first and choreograph later, I’m trying to approach the…
Advice Needed about LSP Violation Avoidance
At work I’ve run into one of those situations where I have several object design paths to choose from, yet none of them is standing out as a clear winner. This post aims to set up a small version the…
Peopleware
I recently finished reading Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd ed.). The book is a collection of essays about people-related issues that apply to software development (aimed more so toward managers). The authors, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, are software consultants that…