Contracting for Work
The decision to work for yourself instead of full time for an organization can be a hard one.
2019-10-28
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Career Growth
Experiment First
One skill that's useful to develop is the ability to learn things on your own. Often with a little help, but not too much.
2019-10-16
228 reads
Aging in Technology
As we grow and evolve in our careers, we face new challenges all the time. Steve highlights on of those that some tech workers worry about today.
2019-10-14
291 reads
Priorities and Productivity
Managing a complex workload is a skill many of us need to acquire and maintain. Today Steve has a few ideas on how to do that.
2019-10-09
211 reads
2019-10-03
235 reads
Searching for Answers Inside
Learning how an organization, or even just a codebase, works can be a challenge for new employees.
2019-10-02
146 reads
Celebrate Success
Today Grant reminds us to not only think about the things we can do better, but remember the good things that we accomplish.
2019-09-28
169 reads
Working in Smaller Teams
Steve likes working in smaller teams and has some thoughts on why this is important to him.
2019-09-23
209 reads
Soft Skills: Controlling your career
Technical skills come and go while soft skills will serve you throughout your life. They will have the greatest influence over your career, job and role. For some people soft skills come naturally. As an Aspergers person (Aspie) I have to practice my soft skills at every opportunity. Pure techies need not lose hope. Soft […]
2021-04-23 (first published: 2019-09-19)
6,622 reads
What You Should Know About Coding
Today Steve thinks about the skills and approach we ought to be taught before we start building software as a career.
2019-09-17
379 reads
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