NFT's Are Total Crap. For the Moment.
Because I run a herd of high-level engineers – the team averages 15 years experience – the topics of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and now non-fungible tokens (NFT) come up pretty routinely in our informal gatherings. We have achieved general consensus around blockchain and crypto: they’re both good, with clear applications, and quite a few of us (your author included) have invested some amount of money in cryptocurrency. However NFT’s have remained a doggedly divisive topic.Why Do Silos Suck
When you hear the term “silo” used to describe business structures, it is nearly always a pejorative, a “four letter word” in the truest sense. Development teams that subscribe to Agile practices often lament how “silo-ization” slows down ongoing work. You can expect more colorful language when a decision seems to work directly against the goals of a project, halting work or adding tasks that seem to add no real value.Podcasting Is Actually Faster Than Writing
It seems like everyone picked up a new hobby during the 2020 quarantine. Mine was obviously not blogging, however in the last few months of the year I finally made good on a personal goal and launched a podcast, called Refactored.
Build Your Resume for Speed
Most resume advice is high-flown crap. The titles and introductions describe resume content and structure as a series of mystic combinations.
Five Core Ingredients for Awesome Remote Work
COVID-19 has prompted the single largest migration of workers from brick-and-mortar office locations to a remote work-from-home format, and I couldn’t be more thrilled about it.