Category: Personal Development
Setting Priorities
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
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
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...
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Focused effort, faster results
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
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
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?
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....
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The importance of downtime
As I write this, it’s the day before I return to work after a sabbatical. I’ve spent...
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Paying to Learn
Earlier this week, I was reading a friend’s blog post in which he argued that it’s...
Read MorePreparing for Microsoft exams: how and why
The value of certification is a constant hot topic for many people; a search for certifications on stack overflow alone returns over 27,000 results, and adding the exact phrase “worth it” still returns almost 800. I’ve never...
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Settings Goals in the New Year
I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. It’s almost a cliché that these...
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