Tag: learning

  • How to Ace a Non-Technical Interview

    How to Ace a Non-Technical Interview

    In my experience, developers often overlook the non-technical interview. I’ve been the company culture guy during quite a few interviews. The task is simply to answer one question: “Is this person a good fit for our team?” Some have been great, and others have flopped. What do top developers do to ensure they’re hired?

  • Finding What To Learn Next

    Finding What To Learn Next

    Being able to learn things quickly is an amazing skill to have—even more so for developers because of speed of technology. Most people change careers 15 times throughout their life. Not jobs, careers! So it’s safe to assume that the average developer will have multiple jobs throughout their career. Each job change has the potential…

  • How To Avoid My Business Mistakes

    How To Avoid My Business Mistakes

    The final text was sent. I lowered my head  and let out a long sigh. Looked up at my wife and said, “It’s done…”. I had just shut down the business I had started almost 2 years ago called Samson. For those of you who don’t know, Samson was a service that allowed Barbers to manage their schedule…

  • The Two Paths You Can Take To Learn A Skill

    This is an excerpt from my post on Finding What To Learn Next which I wrote for the Simple Programmer blog.

  • Excerpt On Finding What To Learn Next

    Just wanted to share a bit from a post that I wrote for Simple Programmer a website that helps developers make the complex simple. The post goes into methods that software developers or testers can use to find what to learn next. Being able to learn things quickly is an amazing skill to have—even more so…