Month: February 2020

Update Rhythm

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Just like everything, updates need to have a certain rhythm. This rhythm can be organized and predictable, or, more often than not, it can be disruptive and chaotic. Organized and Predictable Most software languages have an organized and predictable update cadence, or rhythm. Languages like Java and Node.JS follow a 6 month rhythm. They also … Read more

Action Context

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Humans tend to be bad at prioritizing. While we should be spending our time working on urgent and important items, we instead spend much of our time working on non-urgent and unimportant things (see the Eisenhower matrix). We simply cannot tell what is really important. Priorities I may think some task is not important, while … Read more