Personal Growth

And with every year that goes by, time seems to be passing faster and faster…

Our beloved ball of floating earth has gone all around the sun since I started my business, one year ago.

I just arrived at a cozy Airbnb in Germany.
And I got here… without internet or GPS.

That’s right. I didn’t take the most optimal way to get there – following the purple Waze line on the tablet built in to my car.

What’s currently going on in your mind?

Are there five things? Fifty? Five thousand?

Are they important things? Or is it a bunch of random stuff?
What are the things that actually matter to you at the moment?

Some Zoom room in 2022. A small group of people have opened up and shown themselves as part of a transformational leadership training. I’m one of them.

A deep dive into my core beliefs that shape how I see the world, as well as behavioral patterns that I exert, that keep creating the same results, have created clarity and openness.

When you hear the word coaching, what do you think?

Some new-age, touch grass, time-wasting management trick?
Maybe you think of that movie with the basketball team.
Or perhaps it’s just another meeting scheduled in my calendar.

Have you heard people saying things like…

• “We need to ship the feature by the end of this sprint.”
• “The client just saw the latest version and they need the copy changed immediately.”
• “We should first focus on the next release, we’ll discuss the DB design in a later stage.”

These are all normal, expected and common phrases. We hear them all the time.

In my last article, I wrote about the power of simplicity.

And I truly believe this is a guiding principle in good design and quality software.
But it is more than that. It can be applied, as most learnings, outside of software engineering as well.

A few months ago, I started learning a new programming language: Golang.

Yes, the language with the weird creature mascot.

And everything was uncomfortable.
How do I do the most basic things?

Many developers I’ve met love optimizing their workflow. So do I.

It just feels great to discover an efficient approach to a problem you’ve been faced with daily for a long time.
To find that new shortcut that now saves you 3 clicks and moving your arm to that mouse and back to the keyboard.

“I almost got it! Surely if I fix this one error, the damn thing will work! Right? …Right?”

Creative solutions for analytical problems

So often, coding problems require the creative side of our minds.