“Any other job in history” – What My Favorite Interview Question Says About You
The job you choose says a lot about who you are and how you like to work, plus another even more important trait.
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 given interest and do it again and again.” Sarah Lewis What’s the one thing that every successful entrepreneur shares? No, it’s not money, it’s grit. …
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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 my case, my brain loves finding patterns in the noise. That gives me ample sources of design inspiration. The other day I was …
How My Decision Making Framework Saved a Software Project
Your gut feeling is your body saying “careful, there may be a tiger around”. The Decision Making Framework is a better option
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 coffee shop with their stickers covering their sleek, lightweight laptops have no idea what it’s like to have …
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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 libraries, let alone a fully fleshed out Javascript to rely on. When we were their age, we stared at a blinking cursor …