Posts tagged with Learning
Principle of Singular Variability
Change is the only constant. Often misattributed to Heraclitus Dealing with change is an important skill in life. Whether it's your career path, the requirements of your current project, or just something unexpected interrupting your weekend, the prospect…
Buy vs. Build
My first job was building a Windows program, using an old framework—even at the time, back around 2004–2005—called Microsoft Foundation Classes. It was a thin client, taking UI and UX commands from a custom server framework which…
Review: 10% Happier
Within my Things to-do lists, there's a project category dedicated to books I come across, most of which eventually make their way to my Kindle. My reading habits come and go—tracked by the amount of reading…
I Don't Want to be a Manager
"I don't want to be a manager" is always a sad line to hear from software engineers. Granted, I have a conflict of interest: I've chosen this line of work as my profession for…
No Shortcuts to Software Development Experience
Software startups, once their engineering organizations reach a certain size, put together a career ladder for their engineers. It usually comes at a point where there’s enough diversity in abilities that a distinction is useful, for straight-forward things…
Transitioning to Management is Trial by Fire
A couple months back, I wrote about how promotions typically work inside of midsized to large companies. In short, they’re usually descriptive in nature, so the individual only gets the new level and title after they’re essentially doing…
