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…
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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…
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…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 14
Dates covered: April 4-10, 2016 (week 14 of 52) Communication The Cost of Being Right (via Erik Dietrich) Culture Creative Confidence (via Software Lead Weekly) You Can Bring a Horse to Water… (via Software Lead Weekly) Why you should care about engineering…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 13
Dates covered: March 28-April 3, 2016 (week 13 of 52) Career Why You Shouldn’t Do What You Love (via The Software Mentor) How Quitting My Corporate Job for My Startup Dream F*cked up My Life (via The Software Mentor) How to Fall…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 12
Dates covered: March 21-27, 2016 (week 12 of 52) Career How to Get Back to Work after a Career Break (via TED) Making the Most of Grad School for Programmers (via Erik Dietrich) Management Why I Would Never Hire Steve Yegge (via The…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 11
Dates covered: March 14-20, 2016 (week 11 of 52) Career The Trouble with Career Sites (via Erik Dietrich) Spend Time with A+ People in Other Industries (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Firing People (via Software Lead Weekly) Management How Criticizing in Private Undermines…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 10
Dates covered: March 7-13, 2016 (week 10 of 52) Career Chasing Developer Productivity Metrics (via Erik Dietrich) Communication Osmo Wiio: Communication usually fails, except by accident (via The Software Lead Weekly) Hitting the Right Level of Abstraction (via The Software Lead Weekly) Culture…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 9
Dates covered: February 29-March 6, 2016 (week 9 of 52) Career Developing Yourself: Handling Family, a Professional Life and Staying Sane (via Steve Smith) Culture Programming Is a Pop Culture (via The Software Mentor) Motivation You Don’t Have a Procrastination Problem, You…