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Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
This podcast is for aspiring entrepreneurs and technologists as well as those that want to become a designer and implementors of great software solutions. That includes solving problems through technology. We look at the whole skill set that makes a great developer. This includes tech skills, business and entrepreneurial skills, and life-hacking, so you have the time to get the job done while still enjoying life.
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- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Spend Time Or Money - The Best Approach To Growing
We wrap up our discussion with Chris Myles with a continuation of the time or money conversation. There are many ways to grow and build your business. However…
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Automating Your Processes
In this episode, we continue our discussion with Chris Myles and explore how to define and go about automating your processes. Along the way, we also look at…
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Calculated Risk and Facing Doubts
Our discussion with Chris Myles continues into the ideas of calculated risk and facing your doubts. We can all be blocked by worry. However, overcoming…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Side hustle Success Through Perseverance - Chris Myles Interview
We start a new discussion with Chris Myles, focusing on his specific set of skills to create side hustle success. He has tried a lot of approaches and found…
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Run Towards Success Not Away From Challenges
We conclude our discussion with Gregory Offner with an admonition to run towards success or desires. Once you run away, you likely will keep running. This…
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Quiet Quitting or Silent Striking : Gregory Offner Part 3
We continue our discussion with Gregory Offner and look into quiet quitting. This phenomenon can be fixed through motivation. Thus, investing in your staff can…
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Root Goal Analysis - Gregory Offner Part 2
This episode of our Gregory Offner interview series looks at root goal analysis. He shares his story and how it can be used to create a pattern interrupt that…
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Turn Around Tragedy To Find Your Why : Greg Offer Interview
This episode starts a master class in how to turn around tragedy as we talk with Greg Offner. His story is mesmerizing, and he does a pretty darn good job…
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Turn Around Tragedy To Find Your Why : Greg Offer Interview
This episode starts a master class in how to turn around tragedy as we talk with Greg Offner. His story is mesmerizing, and he does a pretty darn good job…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Turn Around Tragedy To Find Your Why : Greg Offner Interview
This episode starts a master class in how to turn around tragedy as we talk with Greg Offner. His story is mesmerizing, and he does a pretty darn good job…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Search Improvement Through Long tail Keywords - SEO Optimizers Interview
We wrap up our interview with Brandon Leibowitz of SEO Optimizers with insight into long tail keywords and how modern searches are made. This discussion…
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Backlinks and Playing Nice With Google - SEO Optimizers Interview
Part two of our interview with Brandon Leibowitz of SEO Optimizers progresses into placement and backlinks. We look at how sites get ranked for search results…
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An Interview With Brandon Leibowitz of SEO Optimizers
We move on in our Interviews 2.0 season to an interview with Brandon Leibowitz of SEO Optimizers. The name gives away his specialty, so it is sort of a spoiler…
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Product Fit - Open Source and Otherwise
We wrap up our interview with Irina Poddubnaia with a focus on finding the right product fit. That goes for your customers and your own needs. There are many…
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Building A Team - The TrackMage Approach
Part three of our interview with Irina Poddubnaia focuses on building her team. She had plenty of experience but still had things to learn. The good news is…
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The Benefits of SAAS Products - TrackMage Decisions
We continue our interview with Irina Poddubnaia of TrackMage to discuss the benefits of SAAS solutions, why they chose them, and how to distinguish your…
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An Interview with Irina Poddubnaia of TrackMage
The new season kicks off with an interview with Irina Poddubnaia of TrackMage. This season will once again explore how others have found success and the…
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Lessons Learned - A Better Life
There is an amusing irony to the idea that more mistakes can lead to a better life. While the trip can be a challenge, the end is enjoyable. We see this in…
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Incremental Improvement and Progress - Do It Now
We often talk about momentum and incremental improvement as substantial steps towards progress. However, we have to take action to benefit from those. Thus, we…
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Save Your Work - Avoid Simple Mistakes
Sometimes the obvious escapes us. The suggestion to save your work often and habitually is one of those apparent recommendations. It is a newer phenomenon as…
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You Have To Risk To Succeed - The Shot Not Taken
There is a great truth among those that have been successful. One must take a risk to succeed. The safe road is too popular. Thus, most people take it, and you…
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Multiple Contact Options - Make The Most Of Them
We often feel like we can not get away from work and those that want our time. However, multiple contact options can easily be overlooked. That can cause…
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Stay Healthy Or Pay The Price
We provide many ways to become a better developer. One of the best ways to do hits over the long run is to stay healthy. Big things like cancer and chronic…
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Take The High Road - Avoid Shady Partners
In this episode, we share a story that shows us to take the high road. It is a road less traveled but one worth the effort. While shortcuts and quick fixes are…
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Project Completion - Cross The Finish Line
Project completion is the focus of this episode. We discuss how to start and implement a solution but ignore finishing. That changes in this story. We look at…
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Timely Billing - Avoid Headaches and Loss
We dive into the exciting world of accounting in this episode. Timely billing is the focus, and a worst-case scenario teaches the lesson. While the mistake is…
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Status Reporting - The Simple Solution For Avoiding Big Problems
Few things cause excitement like the phrase, "status reporting." Yes, I know you are already quivering from anticipation, but that is our topic. This episode…
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Smart Scheduling - Including Buffer So It Can Flex
Our approach to becoming a better developer requires planning. Likewise, we need smart scheduling to hit our targets. That is the focus of this episode. I look…
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Making Good The Enemy of Better
There are many mistakes we make related to pushing too far or not pushing enough. The latter is where we make good the enemy of better. More precisely, good…
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Proving Your Worth - Understand Expectations
It is not at all uncommon to focus on proving your worth when you start a new job or enter a new environment. However, we expect more than others. We often…
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Proving Your Worth - Understand Expectations
It is not at all uncommon to focus on proving your worth when you start a new job or enter a new environment. However, we expect more than others. We often…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Differences In Perception - A Stupid Bet
There are many fights and arguments that start from differences in perception. Whether it is the line-of-sight, angle, or bias, we have differing views. These…
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Mistakes In The Cloud - Know Where Things Live
Modern technology is the focus of this episode as we look at mistakes in the cloud. You can impact a lot of people with a simple error. That is why you need to…
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A Positive Attitude and Finding Hidden Gems
Sometimes a story is full of lessons without having a well-defined core. There are many players, and the successful have a positive attitude. This trend…
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Trust But Verify - Avoid Business Assumptions
There are multiple lessons to learn from this little debacle of a story. However, trust but verify seems to be the best summation. We have to assume a lot in…
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Know Who You Work For - Lines Are Not Always Clear
Clarity and communication are common themes in our improvement episodes. Those are most important when you need to know who you work for. Which master do you…
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Admitting Defeat - Moving Forward And Accepting The Loss
In a season about growing from errors and mistakes, it seems that an episode about admitting defeat is required. We cannot stay stationary and make progress…
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Clearly Defined Objectives - It Is A Mistake To Not Ask Questions
This episode of learning from mistakes focuses on clearly defined objectives. The error highlights what can go wrong when we fail to have them. We also see…
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Testing Your Backups - Disaster Recovery Requires Verification
There are a few times I have been taught the value of testing your backups. That is why even disaster recovery needs to be validated. The first story I share…
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Sweeping Consequences - Avoid All In Until You Are Sure
There is an old joke about sweeping consequences in IT related to wildcard commands like "rm -rf *." However, there are ways to avoid getting bit by them. For…
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A Car Sale - Acceptable Loss And Walking Away
We continue the series about errors and recovering with an excellent example of acceptable loss and when to walk away. We see these appear in negotiations…
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Key Performance Indicators - Measure Your Spending
This episode looks at a marketing campaign and my lack of paying based on key performance indicators or KPIs. This was a slightly costly mistake and, thus, one…
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Ask Questions To Show Knowledge - A Bad Interview
In this episode, our trip down memory lane stops at my first professional interview and when I learned to ask questions. It is thought by many that those that…
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Acceptable Risk - A Bike Trick Gone Bad
We look at another childhood error and its somewhat humorous result as an example of how to plan for acceptable risk. We often think of that as something where…
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A Painful Step - Situational Awareness
A lack of situational awareness is just one of many youthful mistakes we make. Yet, it is the root of tons of lessons. We see it as children shining they are…
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When I Died - Rushing In And Lack Of Caution
This episode covers one of the more dramatic points of my youth where a lack of caution lead to me being declared dead. However, the declaration was hardly…
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Towed Away : Highlight Features
We explore another auto-related mistake in my past in this episode to spend time discussing a need to highlight features. In fact, an argument can be made that…
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A Stolen Car : Playing The Odds And Question Everything
This episode is a tale that shows us that we should question everything. Yes, even our assumptions. Actually, our assumptions first. We have so many sources of…
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A Mistake In Choosing A Major - Prepare For Meetings
The first mistake I want to share in this season is when I chose a major in college. While I was young and naive, it still is a teachable moment to prepare for…
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Using Failures To Gain Success - The Season 17 Overview
We start season 17 with an overview of what to expect. This season will focus on using failures to gain success. Too much is made of the road to success…
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Using Patterns and Anti-Patterns : Season Wrap-up
We end this season with a look at using patterns and anti-patterns throughout your work. The value they provide is obvious and costs little. We gain the…
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Big Hairy Audacious Goals - An Anti-Pattern
The BHAG or Big Hairy Audacious Goals approach to vision or roadmaps is often recommended. The objective is to keep from limiting ourselves. The problem is…
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Rinse And Repeat - A template pattern
One of the most powerful and useful patterns I have come across is one we will call rinse and repeat. It may also be seen as copy and paste or templates…
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The Rosetta Stone Pattern - A Common Format
Our new patterns include the rosetta stone. This pattern provides a path to link disparate systems and their data formats. It comes from the historical rosetta…
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The Worst That Can Happen - An Architectural Pattern
We continue on a series of new patterns and anti-patterns with "the worst that can happen." This pattern uses fear and hyperbole to help us tighten up a…
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Technical Debt - Yes, That Is A Pattern
The idea of technical debt is a hot topic among software development groups. In particular, this concept shows up in agile efforts. While it is more a concept…
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The Cancer Pattern - One Place The C Word is Ok.
The Cancer pattern has a word we do not have a favorable view of. However, this pattern is becoming needed in more and more environments. This pattern is one…
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Keep It Simple - A Pattern To Avoid Complexity
We return to pick up a couple of new patterns. In this episode, we look at the keep it simple pattern and how to apply it to architecture. It is a pattern that…
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Misdirection Anti-Pattern : Solving The Wrong Problem
We looked at an incorrect focus based on faulty data analysis in our prior episode. This time we explore solving the wrong problem with the misdirection…
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Statistical Bigotry - Placing An Incorrect Emphasis
This podcast season is a great excuse to highlight new anti-patterns. We look at a new one we call statistical bigotry in this episode. That is an excellent…