I missed being a junior developer. I missed it when someone already wrote the specification for me and I only need to codify it.

Walking is an underrated form of exercise. Simply put, it’s not too rigor. It doesn’t pump us very much. We don’t see ourselves motivated by the simple act.

When someone controls their environment, they are much happier. This is one of the key ingredients in becoming productive at what you do. The idea is simple: You need to design your environment, whether it be digital or analog, to support you. This means investing time in learning your tools,...

Pain is good. It helps us mature and grow in our fields. But same recurring pain is not. If you let it, you might get used to it and you won’t even realize that there are better things in life. In our line of work as developers, slow internet is...

Einstein discovered the Simple Theory of Relativity because he’s been thinking hard about the said problem for a long time. Although the solution came to him as a flash when he’s about to give up, it wouldn’t happen if he hadn’t been bathing his mind with ideas and thought process...

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Learning about what introvert is, helped me understand myself more. We (introverts) think we’re weird (we’re not). Our genetic makeup is created in a different way and for good reasons. If it wasn’t, we would be already extinct...

The major drawback when working from home is that people will think you’re always available. Your parents or family will request your help that might conflict with your schedules. Your kids will want to play with you and get your attention. Your spouse will ask you to put the laundries...

Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & flow The book focuses on the kanban board to visualize and expose tasks so we can put a limit in our Work-In-Progress. Most of the time, we overload our queue because we can’t determine the proper size of our current...

I like structuring my day. It’s how I feel in control of my life and know that I’m not wasting my limited waking time. Still, I’m not disciplined over this and often times I let my stance slide. We’re just human, right? I read a lot of books on time...

Before, I labeled myself as a craftsman. One who writes code in beautiful prose. This is good but it’ll take me a lot of code revisions in order to arrive at something that I can be happy with. The problem is—deliverables getting delayed—not good.

Scientists have discovered that our attention is shrinking . We can’t sit for a few seconds now without getting bored or wanting to do something like grabbing our phone or opening a new tab and visiting whatever dopamine-inducing sites we like.

The Internet has given us never-ending streams of attention-grabbing information that hijacks our ability to step out and reflect on our current well-being or state of mind. Before you know it, you already have lost sight of your destination and it will be hard to steer back.