Happy Tuesday, everybody. Let’s start the week with a reader question, the way I do every Monday. This week, I’m going to answer a question about impostor syndrome and expert beginners. And I’m going to do it on a Tuesday because I was on the road this weekend and didn’t get a chance to post…
Another Monday and another successful Reader Question Monday. Usually I go with kind of a FIFO model for reader questions, but I bumped one that I’d just logged because it seems interesting. It concerns how to politely say no and how to know when to say no with clients and prospects. I’ve excerpted some of…
It occurs to me that I spend a good bit of time weaving narrative into my posts. I tell personal anecdotes to ground stories, and I add in a good bit of figurative language. But it’s always fairly superficial. I don’t generally get heavily into my own story. As an introvert, this makes sense, since…
Happy Monday, everybody. To help prolong your procrastination over morning coffee just a little bit longer, I’ll offer you the latest installment of reader question Monday. Today, I answer a question that many reading my blog probably have: should I incorporate? Here’s the actual question, as I recorded it. What is the cost/benefit of incorporating?…
Time for another installment of reader question Monday. Today, I’m going to answer a short and sweet question about how to deal with an “irksome” code reviewer. It’s both simple, and fairly open ended, making it a good candidate for a blog post. How do you deal with peer code review and irksome coworkers? Any…
