I’ve spent so many years wanting to do everything. Thinking I could if I gave it the attention.
Makers need to make. We expand our understanding, our learning, and our interests.
Sometimes it’s tough to step back and reevaluate. When you’re so familiar with a thing you become color blind to its imperfections.
What may seem obvious to an outsider is routine and normal.
I didn’t know what I was going to write about today. Having a bit of the writer’s block at the moment.
So instead of writing, I was reading through bookmarked stories on Medium. I found my idea in this post by Alan Cooper.
Don’t fall in love with version one. Not to the extent that you can’t move on.
Be willing to undo past ideas that might have been good enough so that you can get to a better idea. A great idea.
I used to focus on learning the ins-and-outs of design and code. The fundamentals as well as the latest shiny things. Lately I have been learning more about product design, management, entrepreneurship, and leadership. More of the “‘why” over the “what” and “when”.
Bumbling along, trying to keep our heads above water. To lay the train tracks when the train is already in motion. Running full speed without the end destination known.
A lot of teams work this way. The nature of their work is as helpless reactives. No room for long…
When someone asks you to build a new feature, or redesign an existing one, do you know what the problem is that you’re looking to solve?
There’s no point in making a change if it’s not going to solve a problem. If you can’t define the problem, then don’t design the…
I never thought of myself as a contrarian until recently. In reality, I feared I would come off as a jerk if I was too often cutting against the grain. I’ve never sought attention, positive or negative.
In the agile development world one of the ceremonies is a retrospective. At the end of a sprint, a cycle of work, the team meets to discuss what they did well and what they could have done better.
This aims to continuously improve the development process, the output, and the…
A lot of companies will tout metics to prove how successful they are and most of the time the numbers are completely irrelevant.
These companies will spend more time patting themselves on their backs than doing the hard work. The stuff that actually drives results and serves…