There’s little I care about more than finding ways to help the people in my team get better and better as humans. I’ve worked in many manager roles where I’ve been tasked with providing ‘growth’ and ‘personal development’ to my reports. Few of these roles have provided me with any or all of the help I need to do this properly.
A large part of my decision to join MindGym was around the potential of leveraging their own methodologies and tools in my team so they can be more effective.
If you use a Mac as your computer you probably noticed that most of the folders inside your home folder have an icon that matches it’s purpose.
I love to read. However, I struggle with non-fiction. I beat myself up about my lengthening ‘work’ reading list and worry I’m letting my team down by not being able to quote from Accelerate.
So here’s my experiment. Can I achieve all the things I need to achieve with the smallest and lightest setup I can?
I’ve had a pair of Apple Pro speakers in a drawer for a year or so. I’m a big fan of getting as much use out of a piece of technology as I can. In opposition to the narrative often seen in the media, I have never felt that there’s planned obsolescence from Apple.
Cycle routes in London suck.
I was fortunate to know two people with the M365 already, who kindly gave me some tips on how to set the scooter up to get the most from it and avoid common issues.
I saw another news story on the BBC (via Apple News) that discussed scooters and their legal position in the UK and I was irritated enough by it to want to discuss this earlier than I had planned.
I live about 4km away from my place of work. To get there each work day I could take a bus (which takes about 30 minutes), I could take the tube (about 35 minutes) or I could walk (about 50 minutes). It usually takes me about 12 minutes to get to work each day, on an electric scooter.
There's a maxim, in the world of people leading, that change will always incur a drop in performance for the people and teams affected by it.
If you ask your team to change a practice, and you survey them for their agreement, don't presume that getting a majority is enough.
I started this blog as a software developer to try to broaden my reach a bit and maybe get better jobs. Over the past 1.5 years I’ve transitioned to being a developer of people who develop software.
I've been fortunate enough to attend the last three WWDCs and I've noticed a disturbing trend in the makeup and behaviour of the audience: People just aren't as nice as they used to be.
Apps as the new web, app data surfaced through local and network searching, browsers linking directly to app content and Apple starting to take the battle to Google on their own turf, content indexing. Interesting times...
I see a lot of negativity toward Radar, mostly expressed as frustration around visibility of content.
A quick tip for debugging view hierarchies
How has no-one cracked that joke already?
