Will You Survive or Thrive in Twenty Twenty Five?
I have a problem with New Year. Why should we get excited about the possibility of a new year when every day brings so much… Read More »Will You Survive or Thrive in Twenty Twenty Five?
Self-Compassion on the Anxiety Boredom Threshold
Alongside my day job I’ve been making a concerted albeit slightly haphazard effort to build a consulting career over the last few years. This means… Read More »Self-Compassion on the Anxiety Boredom Threshold
Exploring Neurodivergence: ADHD and me
I’m in my 50s and I’m interested in learning more about ADHD. So I spend a long, long time reading around the subject and then… Read More »Exploring Neurodivergence: ADHD and me
Building Resilience: How to form lasting psychological safety
This is the first of a two-part post about building individual resilience in software engineering. Today is Blue Monday. According to experts this is mentally… Read More »Building Resilience: How to form lasting psychological safety
How to HumanOps
It’s hard not to be cynical in the software development business. It seems almost a default for some consultants and some developers. Cynicism comes about… Read More »How to HumanOps
When You Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
This US English idiom* comes up a lot in software development. Why and what is it? It means being too close to a problem that… Read More »When You Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
Identifying The Busywork
Easier to spot in others, harder to spot in our own schedule. Busywork (n): Being so focussed on doing the things that we do, that… Read More »Identifying The Busywork