A few years ago, my business partner and I were having lunch with the CEO and Chief Data Scientist of a company we were working with. During that lunch, we were discussing hiring and how to find the …
Here’s How To Cultivate Grit – Hint: It’s More Than Being Tough
“Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a …
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Taxonomy of NFL Team Names [Infographic]
Lately, I've been getting back into designing just for my own personal enjoyment, and I've come to realize how much I've missed designing for fun. We humans are pattern-matching creatures, and in …
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How My Decision Making Framework Saved a Software Project
For most of our history, we humans were food for lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh my. We were the hunted and all we had to defend ourselves were sticks, stones and millions of years of evolution …
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Retro computers: 8 things we grew up on that younger techies missed
Kids these days. Am I right? They have no idea how good they've got it. These young engineers just entering the workforce have easy compared to what us old guys had to work with. Sitting in a …
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Developers these days, am I right?
Pick a framework, any framework. Implement it and boom, you're already miles ahead of where we geezers started when this new breed of young developers was in diapers. Hell, we didn’t even have …