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...
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...
When we thought that things couldn't possibly be more fucked up, Putin asked us to hold his beer. Since the inglorious retreat from Afghanistan, it was clear that Pax Americana [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana] was over, but who could have guessed that potential conflicts would...
Disclaimer: This blog was never about politics. But occasionally, there are moments when topics far more important than technology, architecture, or leadership surface. That is one of these moments. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's start with facts: * One state (Russia) has lawlessly invaded another independent state (Ukraine), hereby declaring a war...
Pandemic has sped up some phenomena, changing the world forever. One of them is the global equalization of the digital society. Your location and nearest vicinity do not play such an essential role in your life anymore - more and more interactions have moved nearly exclusively into the digital space....
Problem: DDD practitioners acknowledge the importance of Ubiquitous Language (UL), only to ... treat it as a dry dictionary (a vocabulary for entities and value objects). Instead of analyzing the *deep* semantics of UL, we prefer to shape models from scratch using tactical framing (aggregates, repositories, etc.). That increases a margin...
One of the things I'm usually very proud of is how I collect, catalog, and process information in my personal knowledge system. Ironically, somehow I've managed to completely miss the source (& author) of a fascinating statement I've come by recently: > "Advertising...
