Career
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#GHC15: Jo Miller – Build your brand as an emerging leader or technical expert
→: #GHC15: Jo Miller – Build your brand as an emerging leader or technical expertMy notes from @Jo_Miller‘s session at GHC. The Emerging Leaders Quandary – can’t get recognised as someone who is ready to lead a larger team. Why we get stuck – you can’t get that higher level job without the leadership experience… but you can’t get the leadership experience without the job. Do not outsource your…
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The Sixth Time
→: The Sixth TimeI’m heading to Houston, Texas this week to go to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. It’ll be my sixth time attending, and over the years I’ve gone in various guises. As a grad student, a Google employee, in disguise (I de-branded myself and refused to do any recruiting activities), as an independent. This year…
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12 Challenging Steps to Being a Better Interviewer
→: 12 Challenging Steps to Being a Better InterviewerNotes from my @TheLeadDev talk on interviewing. Do you follow the discussion about technical interviews? I find it interesting, and worthwhile. I think we kind of tiptoe around two fundamental problems though. 1. Most technical interviewers are bad. 2. We think that technical interviews teach us more than they do. Today we’re going to talk…
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Space and Time
→: Space and TimeThe list of things I’ve learned this year is pretty long, but one thing I keep coming back to is: if you want something different, you have to create space for it. And so I have tried to deliberately create it (with mixed results) but above all be mindful about what (and who) I let…
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#Øredev14: Dan North – Deliberate Advice from an Accidental Career
→: #Øredev14: Dan North – Deliberate Advice from an Accidental CareerMy notes from Dan North’s talk at Øredev14. “People Love Machine” – About people having an emotional connection with technology. About 25 years in tech, had some wonderful wonderful interactions with people. Later realised pivotal moments. Be aware when you’re interacting, you may be having an impact. Most interactions were from professional life, but realised a…
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The #NotAllMen Project
→: The #NotAllMen ProjectLast week featured two milestones. I closed the first day of JSConfEU with a talk called “Some Things I’ve Learned about Color”, which is the story of how I left tech (not why). It’s about burnout, and how aside from overwork, there are 5 other things that cause it: lack of control, lack of reward, lack of…
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Milestones
→: MilestonesIt’s been about a year since I walked away from the gilded cage, the conglomerate, London… really many aspects of being a grown up. Some days I am overwhelmed by how much I want to get done by the end of this year. Some days I am amazed by how much I’ve learned. Some days…
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Reaching Profitability – 7 Things I’ve Learned
→: Reaching Profitability – 7 Things I’ve LearnedIn May, I met my revenue goals, and in June I’ll take a pay-check – my first since I escaped my gilded cage. It’s an exciting milestone, and one I’m proud of. However when people say they envy my life, or that I’m “living the dream” I get quite irritated. Yeah, it looks good, now.…
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A Small Focus Hack
→: A Small Focus HackI decided that my word for 2015 was “ship”. Part of this is that it’s easy to flounder in an unstructured environment (which I did a bit at the end of 2014). The way I decided to solve this was to give myself structure, and goals. How do you measure bigger milestones though? It makes…