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Asael Shinder1d ago • 2 min read
The Part of the Job You Only See by Staying
The advice you hear most often is to move every couple of years, and there are good reasons behind.....
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Asael Shinder6d ago • 2 min read
The Bug Report Everyone Wants to Pick Up
Somewhere in every backlog there are two reports of the same class of problem. One gets picked up...
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Asael Shinder1d ago • 2 min read
The Note Is Right and the Month Is Wrong
You have a note for somebody. It is correct, it is small, and it would take them a week to act on......
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Asael Shinder6d ago • 2 min read
What an Interview Tests Is Quietly Changing
For about fifteen years, the way you proved you could do this job was to produce something. Write th...
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Asael Shinder6d ago • 2 min read
The Quiet Signs a Company Gives Before the Announcement
Companies rarely go from healthy to bad news overnight. They drift, for two or three quarters, and.....
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Asael Shinder6d ago • 2 min read
The Months You Were Away Did Not Erase What You Know
People leave the work for all sorts of reasons. Illness. Caring for someone. A redundancy that took....
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Asael Shinder6d ago • 2 min read
If You Have Given the Same Note Three Times
You have raised it three times now. The tests, the commit messages, the habit of going quiet when a....
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Asael Shinder6d ago • 2 min read
Every Release Note Is a Lesson Somebody Paid For
There is a free, expertly written, continuously updated course on almost every tool you use, and...
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Asael Shinder5d ago • 2 min read
Somebody Wrote It Down Properly and You Never Looked
You have a question about how something works. You search, you open three articles, two of them turn...
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Asael Shinder6d ago • 2 min read
Taking the Keyboard Ends the Lesson
You are sitting with someone who is stuck. You can see it. The problem is four lines above where the...
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Asael Shinder5d ago • 2 min read
The Mentee Who Stops Replying
Three weeks ago they were messaging you twice a day. Now you have sent something nobody answered, on...
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Asael Shinder5d ago • 2 min read
Turn Next Cycle Into Something You Can Check
The first time is reasonable. Budgets were frozen, the reorg landed badly, the committee never met.....
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Asael Shinder5d ago • 2 min read
Your Demo Has One Job
You have ten minutes to show what you built. The job of those ten minutes is to make a room believe....
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Asael Shinder5d ago • 2 min read
Somebody Corrected You in a Public Channel
You post something in a channel. Within a minute somebody replies, in front of forty people, that it...
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Asael Shinder5d ago • 2 min read
You Will Be Judged on Work You Did Not Type
For most of a career, the unit of judgement was what you produced. Your code, your document, your...
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Asael Shinder5d ago • 2 min read
Something Feels Wrong and You Cannot Say Why Yet
You are in a design review and something is bothering you. Not a fact you could point at. A feeling,...
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Asael Shinder8h ago • 2 min read
Some of What They Bring You Is Not Yours to Fix
The session starts with a branching strategy and ends somewhere else entirely. They tell you they...
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Asael Shinder4d ago • 2 min read
Working in a Language That Is Not Your First
You are in a meeting held in your second or third language. You know the answer. You are building th...
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Asael Shinder4d ago • 2 min read
When the Job Is Not What You Were Sold
Six weeks in, you know. The role you interviewed for and the role you are doing are not the same...
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Asael Shinder4d ago • 2 min read
Sit With the Support Team for a Day
Somewhere in your company there is a queue where people find out what your software actually does,.....
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Asael Shinder4d ago • 2 min read
The Request You Cannot Take On
Someone asks you for something. A review by Friday, two days on their integration, a spot in your...
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Asael Shinder4d ago • 2 min read
Mentoring Someone Whose Review You Will Write
At some point you will be mentoring a person you also have to assess. You are their lead, or you...
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Asael Shinder4d ago • 2 min read
People Are Still Giving You Last Year's Feedback
Two years ago you had a bad stretch. You missed a couple of dates, or you were sharp with someone in...
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Asael Shinder4d ago • 2 min read
Forty Years Is a Long Time to Run at This Pace
Do the arithmetic on your own career once. If you started at twenty three and you stop somewhere...
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