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15 Best Ways to Achieve Flow
Reading Time: 7 minutesThat amazing feeling. Imagine that you are immersed in a task, completely absorbed by the process of executing it. Your mind is one with what you are doing. Complexities of the task are clear and all aspects seem connected in well-understood ways. Your body appears to be floating and only…
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Doodle Tuesday: Artifacts
Reading Time: 1 minuteShape and themes are recurring; they evolve, a little at the time. In this straightforward and quick doodle, there are some hints of sculptural drawings and cornucopias, two of my recurring mental abstractions.
Anti-Diversity, Google, and Lack of Good Judgment
Reading Time: 7 minutes[This post was featured on the Huffington Post] Many people who are successful show lack of good sense or judgment. There are many examples. A recent one is Travis Kalanick, the ex-CEO of Uber. His list of actions showing a lack of good judgment is impressive. You can find a…
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The Fallacy of Extreme Tech Interviews
Reading Time: 6 minutesLife of a software engineer. It must have been more than 15 years ago. I was working as a developer for a company in Seattle. I spent my days writing code, designing technical solutions, leading projects, and interviewing job applicants for engineering positions. I loved my job. The interviewing part…
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How to Find a Good Mentor
Reading Time: 5 minutesCan you answer the question “Who is your mentor?” If you can’t, this post is for you. Why Do You Need a Mentor? The answer is simple. You need a mentor because you don’t know everything. You can’t. However, somebody with more experience than you, somewhere out there, knows what…
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Doodle Tuesday: Green Sculptural Tree
Reading Time: 1 minuteThis Tuesday I am publishing a very simple 2-minute tiny sculptural doodle. Green ballpoint. Definitely, nothing to be proud of, but as you know by now, that is not the point.
11 Best Ways to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
Reading Time: 6 minutesSoftware Engineers and Emotional Intelligence Software Engineers are rarely associated to Emotional Intelligence (EI). They are often seen as introverts who tend to focus inwards rather than outwards. That stereotype is due to the fact that developers often start by learning to code in isolation. That leads to associating coding…
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Adobe Flash End of Life Timeline [infographic]
![FlashDeprecationTimeline Adobe Flash End of Life Timeline [infographic] infographic history art](https://i2.wp.com/www.coderhood.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/FlashDeprecationTimeline.png?fit=800%2C2100&ssl=1)
Reading Time: 3 minutesAdobe is pulling the plug After a long history of security troubles, Adobe finally gave up. Yesterday, July 25th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the world found out when Flash will be officially no more: End of 2020. In a historic joint announcement, Adobe, Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Apple,…
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Doodle Tuesday: Spikes
Reading Time: 1 minuteOne of the recurring themes in my meeting doodles is what I call “sculptural images.” A sculptural image is a drawing of something that resembles a sculpture on a pedestal. This Doodle Tuesday I am publishing a sculptural image from 2014.
12 Reasons To Avoid Individual Code Ownership
Reading Time: 7 minutesCoding is a form of art, and artists are very attached to their pieces. That visceral attachment is what makes programmers passionate and intense. That can be a good thing, but it can also lead to problems. Unless the entire development organization has only one or two developers, individual code…
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