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The Working From Home Killer Tip No One Is Talking About.
Everyone is talking about their great tips for ‘Working From Home’ but there is one killer tool we’re not talking about. I avoided for a long time jumping on the bandwagon and writing a post about working from home in the ‘new normal’. It’s been done to death, and I…
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Stepping Down as a Dictator: Giving Great Teams Permission to Make Awesome Decisions.
At Klarna, we hire amazing people. This statement isn’t hyperbole. I’ve not met one person in the year that I’ve been at Klarna who didn’t impress me in some way. But one thing that I’ve learned this last year is that if you put a group of amazing people in…
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10x Team Killers. A Single Point of Failure.
10x developers are a risk I’m not willing to take. They are not a sustainable rock to build your team on. We are still talking about 10x developers, rockstars, and ninjas. If you find one, you can keep them. Rockstars are notoriously well known for their egotistical diva-like expectations, throwing…
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When I grow up, I want to be just like you!
Do you consider yourself to be a role model? Well, believe it or not, you are. Whatever stage of your career you are at, there is someone somewhere looking up to you and thinking, ‘I want to be just like them.’ When I grow up, I want to be Paul…
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Why I built Titlify: Job Title Hyper Inflation
I built a spoof job listing site, Titlify, as a protest about the industries’ problem with job title hyperinflation. Why did I do that? A few months ago, I built a spoof job listing site, Titlify. But why would I waste so much time on creating a spoof job…
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Agency Developer: The Path to Product Development Super Powers
Agency developers make incredible product developer, they’re used to delivering at least 10 products every year and have seen the whites of the clients eyes. Hi, my name is Philip, and I’m an agency developer. I have been clean for 364 days, 23 hours, and 35 minutes. For years I…
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Tools I Love: The Online Lightning Decision Jam
I love online Lightning Decision Jams as a way to make collective decision-making easier for remote teams. I work for a company that hires very talented people, however getting intelligent people to make collective decisions can be difficult. It’s even harder if you throw in the extra spice of a…
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“Developers don’t like development plans” and other bullshit I’ve heard.
If you think personal development plans are too much work. You are a negligent manager. And quite possibly an arsehole. I was recently amazed to hear another engineering manager say “I don’t know why we bother with these personal development plans; developers don’t like development plans.” My initial thought was…
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Bonus Post: Things I Use to Beat Dyslexia
I suffer from dyslexia. I thought it might be helpful to share a few things that help me in my day to day life. So as I mention in my post today about silent meetings, I suffer from dyslexia. I thought it might be helpful to share a few…
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A Dyslexic’s Fear of Silent Meetings
People have started talking about silent meetings, and as someone who has dyslexia, this is terrifying. I was recently catching up on some episodes of an amazing podcast called ‘Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat’ that I had missed. I came across an episode where Bruce was talking to…
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Software is Easy, People are Hard: a Small Team Lead Manifesto.
Over the last couple of months of brain-farting, I’ve started to collect the things I’ve been posting into several categories. These categories have become a ‘manifesto’ for how I *want* to lead a small team. Leading a small team isn’t sexy. It’s just hard! The main reason…
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Arseholes are Arseholes, However Talented they are.
It’s not OK to let someone be an arsehole just because they are talented. Challenging their behaviour is essential. Something that I wish I had learnt early on in my career is that you don’t need to tolerate arseholes. It’s not that you don’t need to tolerate arseholes, you should…