Detecting and Avoiding Burnout
Every developer is different in their ability to sustain a high level of productivity for any amount of time. The higher you push productivity and the longer you try to maintain it,…
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Category: Become a Better Developer
Keeping Up With Technological Advances
We all know that technology moves fast. That makes it a full-time job just to keep up with the latest technological advances. Fortunately, there are many ways for us to make keeping…
Learning Development Languages – A Roadmap
One of the easily recognized ways to become a better developer is the act of learning development languages. We all know that new tools show up regularly and force us to add…
Escalating A Situation and When To Go Over The Head of Your Boss
. A recent article I read focused on whether it is good for a manager to throw their employees under the bus. I was thinking about this and turned it around to…
The Value of Sales Skills for IT Workers
Much like marketing, sales skills are useful to everyone. This is also an area that is pervasive throughout life. It has far more than just business applications. There are two sides to…
Communication Noise vs. Content
Related to the idea of white space that we covered in the prior post is its enemy, noise. The level of communication noise has grown by leaps and bounds over the last…