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Leadership is Fractal
Said another way: you are never not leading, even if you are not in an official leadership role. Have you ever passed on a leadership skill you valued to someone who you thought would benefit others by employing that skill, i.e., you caused leadership. Do you look at others to see what they are up…
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On Complaints
TL;DR: Only complain to those who can make a difference. This is taken from one of my early blogs. We all have reasons to complain when things don’t go well, yet we must consider what happens when a complaint is complained. First, what goes around comes around. This refers to the spirit and intent of…
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“But It Works On My Machine”
Have you heard this complaint before? You’re working on an issue, but when you ask a colleague to reproduce it, they report that it works on their machine. This happens over and over again. You spend many hours verifying code and configurations and data and nothing seems to work. This problem arises in development due…
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