Dates covered: August 24-30, 2015 (week 35 of 52) Culture An honest guide to the San Francisco startup life (via Software Lead Weekly) Ethical and Sustainable On-Call (via Software Lead Weekly) Games of Gangs (via Software Lead Weekly) Economics Are You Ready for…
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Professional Development – 2015 – Week 34
Dates covered: August 17-23, 2015 (week 34 of 52) Career I’m an Engineer and I’m in Demand – So Pay Me More! (via Cameron Presley) Do I Have Too Much Experience to Become an Apprentice? (via Cameron Presley) Don’t Be a Human Resource (via…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 33
Dates covered: August 10-16, 2015 (week 33 of 52) Career Use These 7 Tricks to Win Meetings and Get Promoted (via Erik Dietrich) Dear Startups: Stop Asking Me Math Puzzles to Figure Out If I Can Code (via Cameron Presley) I Don’t Have…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 32
Dates covered: August 3-9, 2015 (week 32 of 52) Career Code Kata? How about Product Kata? (via Erik Dietrich) Ship Something Yourself, Even if You Earn Only a Dollar (Part 1) Ship Something Yourself, Even if You Earn Only a Dollar (Part…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 31
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…
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…