Growing as Makers • Jan 21, 2024 Why You Shouldn’t Go Into Management (Yet) Building technical skills can supercharge your management capabilities. Learn why you should consider staying in the trenches longer.
Growing as Makers • Jan 06, 2024 Progress: An Exploration of Growth It can be difficult to track, measure, or describe a sense of progress, especially early on in your career.
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.
