I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
I consider myself a "product person". Counseling, consulting, and other types of mercenary work are cool short-term, but I'm not going to fool myself. In the end, I want to build (organically) something persistent and lasting that will stand out in comparison with the competition and...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
Goals are not rocket science, right? Just make sure they are SMART [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria], confirm the specific objective value, and get yourself busy, striving to get there before the deadline is due, correct? In fact, many do just that. I find it an equivalent of...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
I received my DC-1 over a month ago (on Nov 7th) - it's enough time to summarize my initial impressions. Most likely, I'll add some updates in the following months, so feel free to bookmark the article if you're interested in what else I&...
The previous episode in the series (part 3) can be found here. It's the time. First, to conclude this short series of blog posts dedicated to what's wrong with DDD. Second (and more important) - to talk about a practical alternative to DDD. Is there any?...
Let me tell you a story about enhancing an existing product with Generative AI. It will be a cautionary one, so if you read carefully, you may avoid some (potentially expensive) future mistakes. As you may have already read on this blog, I pay a lot of attention to curating...
The recent online discussion on "freedom of speech" that has flared up after Pavel Durov's arrest has forced me to dig this topic out of the backlog. To be precise, "this topic" means the eternal conflict between two contradicting forces: (1) protection of free...
In my last post about "snacking", I promised to cover one more leadership anti-pattern (also mentioned by Will Larson in "Staff Engineer") - this one is called "preening". What is "preening"? Preening means doing low impact + high visibility work to get wider...
It won't be the first time I praise Will Larson's books (directly or indirectly), but they deserve all the recognition they get, so I have no remorse. Anyway, I think it was "Staff Engineer," where Will has named two fascinating phenomena. They were not...
