Work Consensus Kills How a culture of consensus kills innovation If you work in software, especially as a front end developer, you understand technology fatigue. For those of you who may be unfamiliar, technology fatigue is
Life Spring Spring is a great time of year. The earth stretches it's arms and the slumber of winter is exchanged for eager anticipation of the things to come. Plants begin to stir and the
Advice Fixin' stuff Why fixing stuff is awesome I love to fix things. What's More, I'm pretty decent at it. God has given me this strange affinity to problem solve. Put me into a situation where
Work Be your own mascot Why it's important to speak up for yourself Navigating the world of business is sometimes tricky. There are so many gotchas to know that sometimes it can be difficult to figure out what
Development Effective employment The true measure of a great job isn't in the perks. I want to take a minute to talk about something I call, "effective employment". What do I mean by "
Work Remote Work Working remote benefits more than just the employee. Today is Friday. I'm sitting on my deck, in balmy 64 degree weather. A hummingbird flies near me to feed at the feeder 3 ft
Development Shhhh! Why knowledge workers are vulnerable to distraction Have you ever tried to count to 1000 in your head? Once you've learned the mechanics of counting it's not really that difficult but It does
Development Where Interviews fall short Interviews are often terrible at assessing individual competency, so how can we make them better? Ah the interview. Many words have been written about their nature, difficulty and ultimately their shortcomings. It seems
Angular Angular 2.0 Angular 2.0: Why I am not impressed? So recently Angular made an announcement that they will be using Typescript as the mechanism for building the Angular source. A friend of mine asked
Sometimes the best thing you can do is back off. What do you do when you've got a problem on your hands? Sometimes the best thing you can do is back off. Your employees don't want to be treated like children and they
Teach others how to treat you How respecting others and yourself pays off. One thing I've learned in the world of professional development is that things tend to be a lot less professional than I first imagined. One particular
On Multitasking, Task Switching, and overloading Multitasking is doing more harm than good to your work. I just read a great article on Hacker News this morning concerning the role of "DevOps", and its abuse. I thought
Ubuntu Hello Ghost! How I got Ghost installed and running Today I got Ghost running on my Digital Ocean droplet and this is the first post in production. When I started running Ghost, my server was
