How to Think Strategically
6 min read
How to think strategically in your career and in your work.
Read More →Microskills
20 articles
The Most Valuable Non-Technical Skill of 2021
6 min read
Personal Knowledge Management can take your thinking and creation to a totally new level.
Read More →The Secret to Getting Really Good at Something
6 min read
If you want to get really good at something, teach it to a total beginner.
Read More →Deep Work and Analog Productivity
8 min read
Sometimes you need to disconnect in order to do the important work.
Read More →The Upside of Your Unfinished Projects
5 min read
It's easy to feel discouraged about all those unfinished projects. Did you know there's a hidden upside to them?
Read More →Re-Purposing Day Job Work to Make Career Moves
7 min read
One of the best wasy to grow in your career is to re-purpose your day job work. I'll show you how in this article.
Read More →Adapting to Sudden Change
5 min read
Sudden change can be scary. In this article, we'll talk about some ways you can make it through sudden change while preserving your mental health.
Read More →Powering Up with Capacity Tests
7 min read
Learn how to grow your skills through challenging yourself.
Read More →How to Get Unstuck in 10 Minutes
10 min read
Stuck on a project or a goal? Here's quick process to unblock yourself.
Read More →Embrace 1% Days
5 min read
Any progress is good progress.
Read More →The 90-Day Rule (and Other Secrets to Consistency)
9 min read
Doing anything consistently is tough. In this article, I'll share some lessons I've learned over the last few years that have helped me hack my brain into writing or creating content consistently as well as build better exercise and eating habits.
Read More →Learning to Say No to Things
9 min read
Helpful people tend to get buried by saying yes to everything. How do we improve at saying no? How do we know what to say no to?
Read More →Avoiding the Shiny Chase: How to Maintain Focus
9 min read
How to maintain focus at three different levels.
Read More →How to Prioritize Projects
5 min read
How to evaluate projects and pick which ones to work on.
Read More →How and Why to Reduce Your Scope
7 min read
How do we pick projects that will challenge us but also actually get completed? I'll show you in this article on how and why to reduce your project scope.
Read More →How to Finish What You Start
11 min read
Finally make a dent in that endless list of project ideas.
Read More →How to Review Your Progress
9 min read
Reviewing your progress is the missing puzzle piece of improving as a developer or developer advocate. In this article, you'll learn how to effectively determine where you're at in reaching your goals and finishing your projects.
Read More →Document Everything: The Secret to Measuring Progress
9 min read
It can be very difficult to sense whether we're making progress. The first piece of that puzzle is documenting what you're working on.
Read More →How to Self-Mentor
8 min read
It's very common to want a mentor, but not that common to actually have one. How can we find ways to improve when we don't have a single guide on our developer journey? This article shows you how.
Read More →How to Ask for Feedback
6 min read
Asking for feedback is often fruitless. Why is that? In this article, we look at why most requests for feedback fail and how to effectively ask for feedback to improve.
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