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Sudden success
Category: Life in general
Common goals instead of individual
Common goals bring us closer together whereas individual goals drive division.
Separate bank accounts
I read Scott Hanselmans post about allowance for adults. Me and my wife have separate bank accounts and one shared account. It affords us more freedom.
Free time is a wrong concept
Lately, I’ve noticed that I have less and less free time. That got me thinking of all the tasks on my to-do list and how they fall into two categories: the ones I have to do and the ones I want to do.
How free is free software
After watching Hadi Hariri’s Where’s my free lunch? talk, I got to think about a number of things friends said about the cost of software. Free is everywhere these days, but secretly everything is paid for although not always with cash.
New horizons over at Egemin
After more than 3 years working consultancy at Realdolmen, I spent my last working day there on 31st of December 2016. Realdolmen was a very good employer and gave me great opportunities to learn and grow. Unfortunately, that also means that opportunities present themselves that are just too good to pass up.
Do I know or did I just take a decision
A while ago, the team asked who took the decision to use a certain pattern on how a custom configuration was implemented. As that happened weeks or even months ago, nobody could remember taking that decision. That got me thinking about when I take a decision versus when I know something for certain.
People are more aggressive lately
It surprises me how impatient and aggressive people are these days. I noticed several incidents in the past few weeks and wanted to talk about them.
The influence of goals on stress
A little while ago I learned an important lesson: lack of goals in a project can lead to stress. Yes, not only can goals cause stress, apparently, they can take a part of it away too.
Do I know or did I just take a decision
Do I know or did I just take a decision
A little while ago, my teamlead spoke to me about my performance on the team. He (and the rest of the team) is happy with the work I do. There was a case he pointed out where I took a decision where it wasn’t my call to make. Now that I think back on it, he was right. I took a decision to implement an object in a certain way that later confronted a colleague with a small bug. When the classes are used independently they are technically correct, but due to the interaction between them, a bug arose.
This confronted me with the subtle difference between knowing something and deciding something. It happens in a fraction of a second inside my brain, but it can have consequences to the rest of the team, without me giving it some thought. I have to be a little more mindful of when I take a decision, compared to when I know something with a 100% certainty.
