Jonah Bailey at Atomic Spin

Dissent Is Inevitable. How Can we Make it Constructive?

Disagreement and challenge can lead to more robust performance and team unity. Leaders should expect this and be able to respond to it appropriately.

Business Practices

Connecting Values to Behavior with a ‘Standard of Performance’

Everyone at Atomic is expected to strive toward our standard. We don’t shy away from the challenge; it’s invigorating and exciting to be held accountable.

Growing as Makers

Managing Your Career in Tech – Part 2: Leverage OKRs for Personal Growth

Don't wait to get started with OKRs for personal development. Anyone can use them — you just need direction, will, and orientation around the framework.

Growing as Makers

Managing Your Career in Tech – Part 1: Make Work Matter

Your work should matter to you in some way that outpaces monetary compensation so you can push your own career forward while also fulfilling your job responsibilities. It's a simpl

Personal Optimization

Your Smartphone Is Stealing Your Brain. Here’s How to Take It Back.

Regular, short breaks can increased productivity — but not if you're using them to surf social media, which fractures your attention and drains brainpower.

Project & Team Management

Creating Psychological Safety Leads to Happy Teams

I can't always control who's on my team, but as team lead, I do have the ability to change group norms and make sure everyone feels heard and secure.

Personal Optimization

Questions to Ask Your First Prospective Tech Employer

Not all companies are created equal. Asking smart questions during a development job interview can help you tell the good ones from the bad. As a new grad, you have a lot of power

Growing as Makers

The Pros & Cons of 5 Different Development Career Paths

Your career can be a tool to help get you what you want from life. And each kind of development career path (startup, corporate, academic, freelance, or consultancy) will help you

Growing as Makers

Begin Your Career with the End in Mind

A job is usually a means to an end — a tool to get something else you want. Think about what you’d like to be doing, who you’d like to be doing it with, and where you’d like to be

Planning Your Project

Why Software Rewrites Often Fail – and How “User Goals” Can Fix Them

Instead of asking, “How we can duplicate our existing software with modern technologies?” we should ask, “How can this software help User X reach their goal?” The difference may so

UX/Design Practices

A Tale of Two Approaches to Innovation – IxD vs. Proto/Test

The discussion of Interaction Design vs. Prototype/Test/Lean is about how we frame and solve problems—specifically how each approach treats the user.

Evolving the Industry

Coding Bootcamps Have a Fundamental Problem

What if coding bootcamps are preparing motivated, hard-working people only for slow-moving, creativity-free software jobs at large companies?

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