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Dignify mistakes and questions

Madeline Hunter’s Mastery Teaching has a concept I’ve found useful: dignify mistakes to promote learning. People dread being wrong or looking stupid. Or…

May 4 •

April 2023

Quality with purpose

There’s an argument to be made that code quality doesn’t really matter. What matters is shipping fast, and you an sort everything else out later. I get…

Apr 1 •

March 2023

Am I still relevant as a programmer now that there's AI?

Computers have long been able to do amazing things, but it sure feels like things have changed a lot recently. ChaptGPT can answer questions (sometimes…

Mar 14 •

February 2023

How to answer "what's your biggest weakness?"

I’ve been asked “What’s your biggest weakness?” in many interviews. Maybe it sounds deep or profound or something? In any case, one non-BS way to answer…

Feb 27 •

Don't build your own blogging software

If your goal is to write, you should focus on writing and publishing your ideas. Avoid adjacent things that aren’t writing. For example, it’s really…

Feb 17 •

Uncertainty is unavoidable

Make progress anyway

Feb 11 •

January 2023

The right question to ask an interviewer

Job interviews usually end with time to ask questions. You know the drill. When there’s 5 minutes left your interviewer will ask “so, do you have any…

Jan 21 •

Start out writing on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a great place to get started writing as a professional. (Or, if you’re in a future timeline where it no longer exists, whatever the…

Jan 2 •

December 2022

Writing good performance self reviews

It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… performance review time! Let’s talk about writing your self review. Understand how they’re used…

Dec 16, 2022 •

Happiness could be a habit

I used to think happiness was a choice. Seriously. Like you could just choose to be happy, and many people didn’t Obviously that’s not right. I cringe a…

Dec 1, 2022 •

November 2022

Don't hide things that didn't go perfectly

Ever had things at work that could’ve gone better? Supposedly rock star vendor didn’t have the capability you thought… Ran into some technical…

Nov 18, 2022 •

Expect less mentoring as you gain experience

In entry level positions (such as junior engineer) you usually get some amount of mentoring, coaching, and training. Well, hopefully you do. However, as…

Nov 3, 2022 •

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