Reading Time: 5 minutes My month(ish) of learning So one of my goals has to been to dive deeper into Ruby and Rails, but as well as to try to learn a new thing, maybe technical, maybe not, every work day. And then to write that thing down. This was to help with accountability, you know actually doing it,…
Category: Career
The danger of Slack
Reading Time: 2 minutes Slack is a wonderful communication tool, I love how easy it is to get in touch with my co-workers, but it is also a huge time suck which I have become slightly addicted to. It is way to easy to start browsing through a channel, start checking on the pinned items (#living-vicariously, I’m looking at…
Taking a step back from tactical to focus on strategy
Reading Time: 2 minutes We just got through a full company retreat. Thinking back over my career, this might be the first company that I worked at that actually did one of those. I have down team things before, and had all company meetings, but not a full on retreat. It was great to see the entire company come…