Or: How to be successful while making many mistakes 🙂

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Experience is what you get when you are expecting something else…

The problem with heroes is that heroics don’t scale; instead: Boring scales. Call me old-fashioned (or boring) if you will, but when I am in charge of running some service, I want my days to be uneventful.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/unhappy-the-team-that-needs-heroes

If you have code reviews without actual reviews, postmortems that do not lead to improvements, and training without learning, you have form without function. It might look good, but it is useless.

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You might like the boat you are in, but make sure you leave it before it starts making water.

If your team's culture is not what you think it needs to be, do not explain what needs to change, instead, model the desired behavior and look for a first follower.

This week's article: https://josvisser.substack.com/p/show-dont-tell

Referenced video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ

Thursday Thoughts article: https://josvisser2.substack.com/p/keeping-it-real-about-the-european

Adaptability is the new safety net…

Read at https://josvisser.substack.com/p/security-is-temporary-adaptability

If you are a software engineer today and you are not learning how to be a better and faster coder with AI agents, you are doing yourself a disservice that might have significant ramifications for your career. Do not miss this bandwagon.

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Whenever I get feedback, I always check if someone didn’t just explain some of the rules of the game to me.

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People with experience solving small problems often underestimate the difficulty of solving big problems.

Read and watch at: https://josvisser.substack.com/p/scale-is-the-only-problem-left