Interview questions are trick question, the trick is giving the answer you want Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash I’ve been doing a lot of interviews in the past while. Which means I’ve been asked a lot of questions. A lot of the same ones crop up over and over, and some questions really do feel like…
Stripping something down to the basics highlights skill and technique As many of you know, one of my passions and hobbies is cooking. I’m not culinary graduate awesome, but I can hold my own. And while I can tackle complicated recipes, I often stick to simple dishes because they are faster. And then are the…
I created worlds of adventures, my daughter creates entire houses “A Great figurine from Guardians of The Galaxy and cactus plants sitting on a desk at Four Work Coworking” by James Pond on Unsplash Being a (late) middle-aged father of a pre-schooler (with two older kids) I’ve seen a lot of make believe unfold around me. It’s…
Their own career will be just fine for it “Several people fist bumping over a busy workspace” by rawpixel.com on Unsplash I caught a post today on LinkedIn that really irked me. The poster promoted the idea that a) (good) managers were only looking out for themselves and their careers and b) you should do that too….
And by we I mean us techies, geeks, and social media experts Photo by Tom Sodoge on Unsplash There have been a lot of great posts on Facebook’s privacy debacle. And if you’re looking for a common thread in all of them is that those of us in the industry weren’t surprised in the least. We knew…
Photo by Tobias Cornille on Unsplash When the assumption so flawed you really don’t have any choice or How I discovered my superpower and will no longer apologize for it I had a perfect storm of events over the past week that came together for me to call bullshirt during an interview this week. It felt good to…
Photo by Alex Grodkiewicz on Unsplash I’ve been talking with a lot of companies lately, and here’s what I’ve seen going right During my job hunt I’ve had a chance to get to know a lot really interesting companies. Doesn’t matter if I was the right fit or not, that’s not the point here. Part of my…
Sure I want to, but that isn’t the point Photo by Todd Quackenbush on Unsplash I love to cook. My mom taught me how to make her spaghetti sauce when I was 13 (that would be 35 years ago) and I never looked back. I still have my cheap, plastic recipe card box from 7th grade home…
Kinda hiatus, but more like life got in the way A beacon cutting through the crap I realized this morning while I was sending out my “portfolio” for a job application, that I haven’t published here since June. Hmm. While I have been dormant here, I have been doing some freelance writing for Vonigo. So not totally…
Let’s hope it stays that way As the FCC in the U.S. threatens to dismantle net neutrality, the Independent reports the in the U.K. Theresa May may just censor the whole damn thing. This is not good. If there is one thing that is essential to the free exercise of democracy to innovation to even the…