Miscellaneous
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Activism for developers
Whether considered luck or a curse we've surely inherited interesting times. I'm sure many of you, like me, often wonder what, if anything, you can do to help. In the past few years, I've volunteered some consulting time with a number of small nonprofit groups in my town which led me to gain some insight into how they produce change. -
Abstractions II Debrief
Test Double consultant Ali Ibrahim shares his takes from Abstractions II. -
Debrief self.conference 2019.
Test Double consultants share their takes from self.conference. -
Imposter syndrome is a jerk.
My experience with imposter syndome and how to overcome it. -
I'm ashamed to say it.
Brené Brown's TED talks recently motivated me to contemplate the role of shame in my professional development. Is shame a problem in the software industry, and if it is, what can we do about it as leaders? -
Debrief: Lead Dev New York 2019
Last weekend I packed a head cold and a southern nonchalance towards weather preparation1, and flew northeast to attend The Lead Developer conference in New York. It wasn’t until I got there that it occurred to me I had bought my ticket based entirely on my experiences at the 2018 version of this conference in Austin, and had no idea who was going to be speaking at this one. -
Debrief: Lead Dev Austin 2018
Last weekend I had the great privilege of attending LeadDev Austin. As far as I’m concerned, the folks at White October knocked it out of the park! For a one day conference where the longest talks were 30 minutes, the speakers packed in plenty of valuable information. -
Reasons not to quit your job.
“2016.” A year of ups and (if you agree with many of the social media channels in the last month) a significantly larger number of downs. I’m not sure exactly what it is about this time of year that causes us to reflect so much more than the rest of the year; I suspect it mostly has to do with a heightened sense of awareness as we approach boundaries. -
Self.conference
Self.conference is a thing I’ve been organizing for three years, and I love it. If you know me, you know that, because I talk about it way too much. -
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