Ah, the exit interview. If you’ve had this experience, the first one probably arose in confusing fashion. You put in your notice and the team scheduled your goodbye lunch. At someone point, HR put a meeting request on your calendar that prompted you to say, “an exit what — what is this?” And then you…
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…
Happy Friday, everybody. I’m still figuring this digest thing out, so please bear with me. But no matter how I iterate, what you’ll get is an aggregated link to posts that I’ve written for my Hit Subscribe business. I’m thinking I’ll do picks each week as well as the digests. You know how podcast panelists…
One of my aims with this blog is to help software developers take charge of the business of writing software. And, while I love writing rants and diatribes, doing this requires a good bit of positively focused how-to sorts of things. Today, I’ll charge at one of those: how to become a software specialist in…
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…
