#softskills

You are sitting with someone who is stuck. You can see it. The problem is four lines above where they...

If you mentor anyone for longer than a few months, the subject will drift. You start out talking...

Somebody is upset with something your team did. A customer, a stakeholder, another engineer whose...

Most of the conversation about the future of work is people worrying about their own role. Widen it...

Be more strategic. Increase your visibility. Show more ownership. Work on your communication. At...

Take any system you work on and ask why it is shaped the way it is. Not what it does. Why. The code...

The part of your job that will matter most in ten years is probably not happening in your...

You explained it clearly. They still did not get it. Your instinct in that moment is to say it...

Somewhere along the way we picked up the idea that changing your position is a weakness. You argued...

Listen to yourself in the next meeting. Sorry, this might be a stupid question. Sorry to bother...

Think about what is becoming cheap. Code is getting cheap. Drafts are getting cheap. A plausible...

Everyone prepares for the first day. New job, new team, you turn up early and try hard to make a...