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Your Dev Project Is a Classroom; Be Intentional about Learning

Learning during projects is usually incidental, a happy accident—but that's a huge wasted opportunity. By being intentional, you'll be surprised what you can learn every day.

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It Turns Out I Don’t Actually Know Everything – and I Never Will

No living human understands our computers from the top to the bottom. No one. There’s even much too much in the stack—across silicon and packet routing and web servers and HTML and

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Wizard Developer Skills: Conjuring Joy From Pain

My teammate has a particular talent for taking the most irritating, painful tasks and turning them into fun and interesting problems to solve. I've been cultivating this skill, and

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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

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Three Ways to Build Up New Teammates as a Technical Mentor

The best way to help someone come up to speed in skills and methodologies is to work directly with them, side-by-side. Pair programming is the perfect chance to nudge people into g

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Providing Guidance as a Seasoned Maker

The experience and wisdom you've gained during your career is invaluable to junior makers. There are many ways you can leverage your experience to help your team grow and mature.

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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

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Four Ways to Replace Meeting Doldrums with Energy & Productivity

Meetings often feel like a waste of time. But the work we do is getting increasingly more interrelated, and it's crucial to agree on a unified path and to break up work—all of whic

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What Is a Software Designer, and How Can You Become One?

A software designer’s take on how to transition from traditional graphic design to working in software, including necessary hard + soft skills and more.

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Three Questions to Ask Your New Pair (and Yourself!)

If you learn how the other person works, you can integrate it thoughtfully into your own workflow. It’s not always a perfect match, but a little forethought goes a long way!

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Four Essential Tips for Easy Project Onboarding

Every project contains an intricate set of variables, processes, and tools that make them successful, and it’s your job to learn all of them by yesterday.

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Early Career Advice: Optimize for Continued Learning

My recommendation, especially early in your career, is to optimize your next move for learning. Start thinking about what you’ll find valuable five, ten, or more years.

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