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📅 May 13, 2020

Surge Effort and Just In Time Work

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. Likewise, it can provide a steady flow of…

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📅 May 11, 2020

Giving Back And Building a Brand

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 for free. However, before you move to the…

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📅 May 8, 2020

Mastering Skills In Under Ten Thousand Hours

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 another time. In this episode, we look at…

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📅 May 6, 2020

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

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 of our daily tasks for getting better. Fortunately,…

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📅 May 4, 2020

Prior Work As a Starting Point For Higher Quality

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 a huge productivity boost. That is the case…

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📅 May 1, 2020

Self-Confidence That Comes From Incremental Improvement

A big part of a good interview is self-confidence. Those that answer questions directly and confidently are more likely to impress than those that waver or seem unsure of themselves. While interpersonal skills are often downplayed for technology positions, they…

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