By Bruno Souza | code , habit , life , S.T.U.P.I.D. , skills
Helping others involves understanding what the other person wants or needs.
It is not easy.
Most of the time, we don’t even know what we want, much less what we need.
But…
You can start by listening.
By Bruno Souza | code , leadership , life , S.T.U.P.I.D. , skills
And… Do you think Open Source can help with that?
(That was a question Edson Yanaga asked me this week)
The particular skill Edson was aiming at with his question is the one I think is the most underated of the developer skills…
And probably the most important one…
By Bruno Souza | code , event , S.T.U.P.I.D. , skills
Few skills are as fundamental as writing is to our careers.
We write code. That’s obvious.
Have you ever though what that means?
By Bruno Souza | book , code , life , planning , S.T.U.P.I.D. , work
Simplify is a great skill.
It is not about making your goals easier, or reducing your results.
To simplify is to go to the heart of the problem, laser focus on the goals, so you can prioritize the right things.
By Bruno Souza | code
Software development is hard… More specifically, “programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics” (Edsger Dijkstra). And yet, we code. We code for work. We code for the challenge. Many decide to code for money (sometimes in old technologies…). Some people code to be cool! We even, literally, code for fun! No […]