It’s easy enough to look back and chuckle at your own foolishness in your younger days, but sometimes I have the weird, sadistic (masochistic?) thought that I’d like to rip a little hole in space-time so that I could get my money’s worth. I’d go back and actually belly laugh and point at 12 or…
I recently posted about why you shouldn’t take interview rejection to heart. I promised at least another post, if not more, to follow on that one, and here I am, making good. This is where I question the value of interviews as we know them and describe what I consider to be vaguely depressing…
A while ago Scott Hanselman wrote a post about “paralysis by analysis” which I found to be an interesting read. His blog is a treasure trove of not only technical information but also posts that humanize the developer experience, such as one of my all time favorites. In this particular post, he quoted a stack overflow…
Persuasion tends to happen at the micro-level, in terms of information volume and breadth. For instance, if I explain that I use “var x = 6” instead of “int x = 6” because a productivity add-in squawks if I don’t, you’re likely to be swayed if you find my case persuasive. If, instead, I explain…
The Courtship There’s nothing like the beginning of a job search. It’s often born out of a time of transition or frustration, and perhaps uncertainty and worry, but no matter how it starts, there’s a rush and glow as you start to peruse the jobs that are out there. Why do you feel a rush…
