Category: Personal Development
Finishing
by William | Nov 26, 2018 | Personal Development | 0 |
November has been a crazy month for me. Despite the fact that I’ve been out of the state for...
Read MoreApplying leverage
by William | Sep 21, 2018 | Personal Development | 2 |
I was reading a finance thread recently where the concept of leverage came up. Simply put, this is asking what activities get you the best “bang for your buck”. If you’re a minimum wage worker, then activities...
Read MoreThoughts on That Conference 2018
by William | Aug 24, 2018 | Personal Development, Programming | 0 |
For the last few years, the beginning of August has meant one thing for me: That Conference! The joke eventually starts getting old, but the conference is always worth the time. 2018 was my fourth year attending and second year...
Read MoreSetting Priorities
by William | Jul 13, 2018 | Personal Development, Programming | 0 |
Assuming you get to set your own schedule, how do you choose what to work on next? Do you pick the most important task? The one with the closest deadline? The one most likely to make your boss (or significant other) happy? After...
Read MoreOn work, burnout, and recovery
by William | Feb 14, 2018 | Personal Development | 0 |
A while back, I was asked what I would change about my job. My answer was that I would like to have more vacation time. In other words…what I would like to have for my job…is less of it. The funny thing is, I like my...
Read MoreGoals for 2018
by William | Jan 4, 2018 | Personal Development | 0 |
I’ve never been a believer in New Year’s resolutions; there’s a reason it’s a cliche to start a new exercise program in January and abandon it by February. Resolutions tend to be things that people would...
Read MoreFocused effort, faster results
by William | Apr 12, 2017 | Personal Development | 0 |
Recently I read a post about productivity. The point of it was that you have a fixed amount of...
Read MoreStop Starting and Start Finishing
by William | Jan 27, 2017 | Personal Development | 0 |
One thing that I’ve always struggled with is a short attention span; I tend to get bored pretty easily. One thing I like about my current job is that I get to work on a lot of different stuff, which helps keep me...
Read MoreRoles, titles, and growing into expectations
by William | Jan 14, 2017 | Personal Development | 0 |
Last week, I found out that I’ve been promoted to senior developer. From a practical standpoint, this doesn’t actually affect me at all; the titles system was put into place to deal with immigration requirements, and...
Read MoreThe daily accomplishment, or, did I get anything done today?
by William | Jan 7, 2017 | Personal Development | 0 |
Today I installed a new faucet. Not a big deal – I’ve done it before and it’s not that difficult, just a bit of a pain (and hard on my back). But I’m still counting it as my accomplishment for the day....
Read MoreThe importance of downtime
by William | May 2, 2016 | Personal Development | 0 |
As I write this, it’s the day before I return to work after a sabbatical. I’ve spent...
Read MorePaying to Learn
by William | Feb 18, 2016 | Education, Personal Development | 0 |
Earlier this week, I was reading a friend’s blog post in which he argued that it’s...
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