Psychology

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.

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.

“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.

Snoozing.

Ahh, the age old snooze. I thought I had beaten you!
But perhaps the reason you entangle me once more, is that same reason which you strangled me in the past: Indeed, I did not really want to wake up or look forward to today.