Growing as Makers The Deep End: Pursuing a Computer Science Degree vs. Pursuing a Career Completing a computer science degree is not easy. But now, there is what seems to be a new monumental task to conquer — pursuing a career.
Personal Optimization The Big Stay: Job-Hopping May Be Lucrative, but Tenure Pays, Too Here are a few counterpoints to reasons people advocate for job-hopping. That trend is slowing down in favor of one called The Big Stay.
Growing as Makers What Does Being a Good Leader Mean? Making Life Easier for Your Team In the end, if you ensured that the problem was addressed, you were a good leader, no matter how you did it.
Growing as Makers If Life Were a Video Game – Part 2: An Open World Congrats on finishing the tutorial! In part two, we talk about how post-grad life is similar to an open-world game and offer some tips.
Growing as Makers 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.
Growing as Makers Get More Out of Your Mentor-Mentee Relationship I've been working with a Career Development Manager for several months. These six things have improved our mentor-mentee relationship.
Personal Optimization Mature as a Junior Developer: Habit Building Forming habits around the type of professional you want to become can be a game changer for building confidence in any career.
Personal Optimization 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.
Project & Team Management 3 Practices I Use to Create a Comfortable Environment for Junior Developers I've found that when I can make junior developers feel comfortable, they're more likley to ask questions, speak up, and point out mistakes.
Growing as Makers 6 Developer Archetypes: Leverage Your Differences We've recently begun to introduce "Developer Archetypes," a set of self-identified labels Atoms can use to radiate their strengths and interests.
Growing as Makers 5 Factors to Consider When Relocating for Your Career Thinking about why I moved to Chicago a year ago helped me tease out a few factors folks might consider when contemplating relocating for work.
Growing as Makers Making Mistakes Made Me the Developer I Am Today We talk a lot about the costs of making mistakes, but something nobody seems to talk about is the cost of avoiding mistakes.
