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...
We're living with the COVID-19 pandemic for more than 12 months already. And yet, according to my observations, surprisingly many people still do not get it: * why is it considered so dangerous? * does the threat level justify our lives being turned upside down (the issue of personal inconvenience)...
I've read a good book about technical leadership and seniority in engineering recently - "Staff Engineer" [https://www.amazon.com/Staff-Engineer-Leadership-beyond-management-ebook/dp/B08RMSHYGG/] by Will Larson [https://twitter.com/Lethain]. I've already reviewed it here [https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3870963321] (feel free...
Have you ever played AD&D [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons]? If so, you probably remember the mechanism its creators used to capture characters' worldviews. The innovative (for those times) alignment system [http://www.easydamus.com/alignment.html] was made of two independent variables: * approach...
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We live in odd times. Information was never so accessible, neither it traveled across the world with such a velocity as it does today. Yet, the truth becomes more and more subjective and ... relative. Being loud and popular is these days far more important than having hard evidence on your...
Writing documents is so passé nowadays. The (software development) industry has removed this activity from typical software crafts(wo)men agendas nearly completely. The longest written forms we have to deal with are usually: commit messages, user stories in Jira, integration test specifications in some Cucumber offspring, and PR comments....
