A resume is your golden ticket to get an interview. Companies get hundreds of resumes for every opening they have. If you imagine it from their shoes, there’s just no possible way to interview that many people for a single position. The best thing that companies can do is screen out people based on their …
What is the one thing that keeps you grounded? In other words, if I were to ask you to name one thing that you do everyday, that no matter the circumstance, you would go crazy if you were not able to do it, what would it be? If you don’t have something today, pick one …
One of the most intimidating things we can do is learn on our own. What if we’re not learning the right things? What if we’re not understanding them fully? What if we’re not on the path to our goals? Within the software industry, you will find people from all walks of life. Those who went …
Multitasking as we know it today is a lie. Multitasking is neither efficient nor effective. In the real world, having your fingers in many pies is simply not sustainable. It provides you an opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time by bouncing between one thing and another and eventually you have …
What does being too busy really mean? You should know, that “being busy” is a myth. We all have shit to do, we all have things we’d rather be doing, and we all have a limited amount of time to do it with. Whenever you tell somebody you are “too busy”, you are telling them …
Social media has really done some damage to our psyche. Being in a constant feedback loop from hell is not ideal for your long term mental health. Comparison Is Hurtful I grew up as a middle child. As my older brother would achieve various feats in his life, of course I would constantly compare myself …
Software has taken the world by storm. In fact, Software Developers are forecasted to grow ~25% over the next 6 years adding over 300,000 software engineering jobs to the software industry. However there are many misconceptions regarding the barrier to entry in this industry. Embracing The Suck In the beginning, you’re still learning and developing …
As a kid, I loved staying up at night watching “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”. I was fascinated with how well each of these actors could take a suggestion, and turn it into a magical experience for me watching from home. It took almost a decade later, but finally a local theater was teaching comedy …
Most of us spend at least an hour a day practicing, but we don’t notice much improvement. In the 1960s psychologists found we pass through 3 phases. The cognitive phase where we’re figuring out the task while discovering new strategies to perform better and making tons of mistakes. This is where we are focused on …
Like many others, I’ve struggled recently with comparing myself to others. Although I do my best to not do this, it feels almost impossible to do sometimes, especially when it comes to the feeling of doing a great job, and not necessarily seeing the results from it. One of my favorite authors and overall personalities …
