Tech

Junior, senior, staff, principal engineers. Have you ever thought into how these are defined?

I like to read quotes of famous, successful people just like the next person. Yet, with the prevalence of these quotes, we may miss the true meaning in most of them.

Software should be easy to change. We make it hard to change even if it is against our best interest.

In digital products, often could sound a feedback, simplified into “return to fundamentals.” Can you make a sense of it if you got one before?

Have you seen someone being in the flow? When the world around them is irrelevant, they are so focused and productive, you can’t even imagine how they do what they do.

A detailed plan, sheets of paper (or endless digital canvas) laid in front of you. How much it is outdated? Can you even guess?

Are you a planner or an improviser? Spending a thousand hours to perfect a single hour of actions? Winging it for a thousand hours to never look back after all?

Popular to bash on daily standups as a waste of time. Yet, my experience, after literally thousands of standups run in half the world, is contradictory to that.

Meetings where everyone is silent. Majority never spoke. When people are inherently interested in something, there must be a cause for disengagement.

“Computer’s work with smoke. If smoke comes out, it doesn’t work anymore.”

Different personalities handle meetings and crowds better. Adapt and engage your team with personal preferences in mind.

A few tips to try to identify AI-generated content when its masquarading as genuine.