Source: Flickr Ahh January 4th. It’s that time of year to review 2016 and think about what’s coming in 2017. Let’s start by looking at what I kicked off 2016 with: _While not being much for New Years Resolutions (though I do love fireworks) last year I shared some professional goals…_medium.comA Year Later — 2016 Goals Did I get it all done or fail miserably? Source: Pinterest Here is the breakdown:...
While not being much for New Years Resolutions (though I do love fireworks) last year I shared some professional goals. I even advocated accountability. I figure I should share how I did. Professional Goals Read one technical book a month: I think I read about 6? We had a fun little reading group that lasted until summer. Blog at least once a week: I was doing well until June. I have an excuse, but I’ll share that another time....
Impostor syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist even in face of information that indicates that the opposite is true. It is experienced internally as chronic self-doubt, and feelings of intellectual fraudulence. Imposter Syndrome ~ The CalTech Counseling Center There isn’t an easy way to start a post like this and there doesn’t need to be. Imposter Syndrome is something most people don’t know a lot about (I’d never heard the idea until I started working at GitHub) but it’s something everyone is intimately familiar with....
The start of the year is a time for goals and plans. I’ve given it some thought and want to put mine out there for two reasons: To be held accountable. I know a couple people who may read this and chide me a bit for not keeping up. I can use that. In the hope that some people may join me in a couple of my goals. Goal 1: Read one technical book a month “A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others....
Update: Yeah… Jekyll was great and I had a lot of fun with it, but I’ve since moved off it to Medium. There’s lots of cool stuff you can do with Jekyll, but in the end the need to develop posts with a text editor and a Ruby environment lost out to a convenient iOS app. So it’s been more days than I’d like since my last blog, sadly since I’ve been dealing with some discomfort in my arms along the lines of an RSI, something I plan on discussing more....
I’m a big believer in mentoring. Classes are great, self learning is hugely important, but there are few things that help someone grow as much as having someone a little bit farther down the road to give a little bit of guidance. I’ve been lucky enough throughout my life to have had many mentors in a number of aspects of my career and life. These people have been invaluable. I’m not the only one....
So after a lot of harassment by the likes of Ben Balter and some other GitHubber’s I’ve decided it’s a good time to learn Jekyll and GitHub Pages, along with the wonderful Hyde library for style points, and start a blog. I’ve largely been terrible about blogging, but frankly I think I’ve never had quite such a good handle on what interests me and how to talk about it, so here’s hoping this one goes better....