Dates covered: July 27-August 2, 2015 (week 31 of 52) Career The Age of Least Resistance (via Cameron Presley) Who Accepts Your Team’s Academy Awards? (via Erik Dietrich) How Performance Reviews Are Being Reinvented, Refined, and Perfected (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication 26…
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Professional Development – 2015 – Week 30
Dates covered: July 20-26, 2015 (week 30 of 52) Career The One Question to Ask Developers Before You Make a Hire Decision (via Cameron Presley) Secrets of computer science: Tips for aspiring programmers, and advice for their teachers (via Rich Rogers) Promote…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 29
Dates covered: July 13-19, 2015 (week 29 of 52) Career Let’s Put Some Dignity Back into Job Seeking (via Erik Dietrich) The Hiring Post (via Software Lead Weekly) How to Control a Job Interview (via Cameron Presley) Technical Hiring and Cultural Fit…
StrengthsFinder Assessment Results
Two months ago (May 2015) I read the book First, Break All the Rules, which was recommended to me by a manager where I work. This book talks about the results of over 80,000 surveys of workers and managers, in…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 28
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…
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…
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…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 23
Dates covered: June 1-7, 2015 (week 23 of 52) Career Job Hunting (via MSDN Magazine, June 2015, Vol. 30, No. 6) Career Advancement for the Low Price of Your Soul (via Erik Dietrich) Craftsmanship .NET Rocks! 1148: Making a Developer Calendar with Steve…