Personal Optimization • Jan 04, 2024 Career Questions to Ask Yourself I've found that explaining to people what I do has been very useful. Maybe your career could benefit from asking these questions as well.
The Software Life • Oct 22, 2023 A Truly Strategic Partnership: Why Some Startups Work with Atomic Working with a custom software consultancy can benefit startups significantly, even if the cost might be higher.
Culture • Aug 26, 2023 Why I Stay at Atomic – It’s Not Just About the Code The real, non-sugar-coated reasons I choose to stay at Atomic? It's about stability, reliable friendships, flexibility, and fairness.
The Software Life • Aug 12, 2023 Use an External Brain for Perfect Recall at Career Fairs Career fairs used to wreak havoc on my long-term memory formation process and leave me staring blankly at a pile of resumes after the event.
Extracurricular Activities • Jul 18, 2023 Best Practices for Contributing to Open-Source Projects Find out why you should be contributing to open-source projects and the importance of community and collaboration, even if you’re new.
Personal Optimization • May 21, 2023 Building a Better Book Club: a 5-step Strategy for Efficiently Ingesting Nonfiction With this five-step strategy, we’re making absorbing the good ideas locked in business books more efficient and enjoyable.
Effective communication • Apr 29, 2023 Here’s How to Give Better Feedback Giving feedback can be uncomfortable, and the way we deliver it can have a huge impact. Let's look at how to give good feedback.
Growing as Makers • Mar 25, 2023 Keep an Emergency Supply of Warm Fuzzy Feelings in a Nice Words Document My Nice Words file is where I put every kind remark my colleagues and clients have made about me or my work.
Project & Team Management • Feb 10, 2023 Is a Small Team or Large One Better for a Junior Dev? It Depends. In my time at Atomic Object, I’ve worked on a small team with only one other developer and on a larger team with seven developers.
Personal Optimization • Feb 04, 2023 3 Tips for Getting the Most Out of a Coaching Experience Given the opportunity to receive coaching to achieve your career goals? Here are my top tips for having productive coaching sessions.
Culture • Dec 28, 2022 Breaking Down Employee Blogging, Part 1: Why Bother? As Atomic’s marketing director, one of the questions I’m most often asked is how we get our employees blogging daily about software.
Culture • Dec 03, 2022 Protons at Atomic: One Way We Recognize Our Colleagues Here at Atomic, we value feedback. We share positive feedback through a recognition program with awards we call protons.
