If you often feel exhausted and low on energy, some simple steps might help you. Listen to Sean D'Souza's podcast episodes on energy management and what we can do to restore our batteries. Sean has been my mentor and good friend who's helped me quit the 9-to-5 rat race.
Maybe it's the jetlag to blame. I just had a revelation and wanted to have it written down before I forget... I believe I've discovered why are we here; what's the reason for our existence on this planet; I've got the answer to the big question: WHAT'S THE MEANING OF LIFE? So, let me share the answer with you. The meaning of life is to BECOME A BETTER VERSION OF YOURSELF! We have to evolve; we need to upgrade ourselves to v2.0 (3.0, 4.0 you name it). What I try to avoid is getting stuck: stuck in an unfulfilling [...]
Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present. The result being that he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. – The 14th Dalai Lama
The environment has a huge impact on your feelings, health, self-esteem and happiness overall. The people you interact with determine the way you live your life. They can make you feel inspired, or they can as well bring you down. “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” You should progress in life and keep growing. If you stick around people who do not inspire/challenge you, then you will stagnate - which is like slowly dying. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with” - Jim Rohn By surrounding [...]
Management likes to reduce risks by treating developers as interchangeable widgets. The silly approach which has been introduced as a revolutionary, agile “achievement” expects that all developers are familiar with all areas of code. The goal is to minimize the loss when any individual leaves the team. Well, this is the worst possible way to approach software development. First and foremost: why does the management think that programmers are going to leave the company? If people are indeed leaving the company, then this is the issue that must be fixed. And expecting that all developers can be experts in all areas of [...]
Building software frameworks is a great thing; frameworks encapsulate and hide the complexity required to solve problems while exposing only the bare minimum functionality in an easy to use manner. So far so good, yet there is a core issue which I faced several times during my career: The ones who design and develop these frameworks rarely use them. In other words, they do not eat their own dog food. With the exception of a couple of minimalistic sample apps and unit tests(*), framework creators almost never use in real applications the stuff they've built. (*)Even worse, those samples and unit tests are written by another team. I [...]
