Personal Optimization 100 Ways to Reclaim Your Commute When my bus route recently detoured around major construction, I started brainstorming ways to take back my commute. Here are 100 of them.
Growing as Makers Switching Industries: How to Thrive Through Career Change Moving into the tech industry was a big change, but I've learned lessons that apply to anyone navigating a career change into a new space.
Personal Optimization Making Mistakes: Why It’s Good for Yuo Let's talk about how to make mistakes, and how to improve your work and your learning by letting go of perfection.
Personal Optimization Building a Better Book Club: a 5-step Strategy for Efficiently Ingesting Nonfiction With this five-step strategy, we’re making absorbing the good ideas locked in business books more efficient and enjoyable.
Personal Optimization Tips for Learning Vim in 2023 One of the most important tools for learning Vim is a cheat sheet, or, if you’d like a deeper dive, a Vim book.
Growing as Makers If Life Were a Video Game – Part 1: The Tutorial Do you love open-world video games? Here is why college can be similar to the tutorial of a video game and some tips for this stage of life.
Growing as Makers Document Your Process to Teach and Learn a New Task Well One thing that’s helped me teach and learn new tasks is our team’s emphasis on documentation and a defined way to pass along process.
Culture Establish a Learning Culture Framework and See Your Business Thrive Establishing a learning culture is a competitive business advantage. This post presents a Learning Culture Framework to help guide you.
Growing as Makers Lacking inspiration at work? Teach someone what you do! I discovered that when you teach a coworker or friend about what you do, you gain inspiration and a newfound appreciation for your work.
Growing as Makers Learn to Code: Make It Simple, Personal & Communal Learning to code is simple but not easy. Good learning makes it stupid simple. It also makes it personal, and it makes it communal.
Growing as Makers Tips for Navigating Your First Full-Time Job: Lessons from a Year of Pair Programming Navigating your first full-time job can be difficult. I learned several important things from pair programming, and I'll share them with you.
Growing as Makers Conferences with Colleagues – 6 Ways to Do it Right Conferences are more enjoyable and more beneficial with a group of coworkers. Team building is the biggest ROI for companies that support employee Prof Dev.