Mastering Your Career Archives

Turning Extra Effort Into A Better Career – Season Review

May 15, 2020 • Mastering Your Career

A better career has ben the underlying topic for this season. As we bring this season to a close, it seems like a perfect time to hit the high points. We revisit…

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Surge Effort and Just In Time Work

May 13, 2020 • Mastering Your Career

The steady effort we put in to become a better developer can be redirected when needed. This surge effort can provide us the extra steam we need to get a project done. …

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Giving Back And Building a Brand

May 11, 2020 • Mastering Your Career

We have often looked at ways to provide content as part of a side-hustle. Thus, we will skip that topic this time around. Instead, let’s look at giving back and providing things…

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Mastering Skills In Under Ten Thousand Hours

May 8, 2020 • Mastering Your Career

There is a well-known book that describes mastery of skills as needing ten thousand hours. The ideas put forth in the book have many arguments for and against, but that is for…

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Mixing Side-hustle Tasks With Your Daily Job – Overlap Benefits

May 6, 2020 • Mastering Your Career

Time is arguably our most valuable resource. We can not buy extra time. We can only spend it as wisely as possible. That means we need to be mindful of the cost…

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Prior Work As a Starting Point For Higher Quality

May 4, 2020 • Mastering Your Career

Our daily work to get better is not without positive side-effects. One of the most powerful of these is the ability for us to build on prior work. These tools can be…

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