Wednesday Wisdom

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.

Read, watch, and subscribe at https://josvisser.substack.com/p/coding-in-the-time-of-ai

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

If you are, like me, a certified brainiac who relishes in spouting endless factoids, I invite you to consider this: You might be wrong. Considering that you might be wrong will make it more impressive if you are right and, as a bonus, will make you a nicer person to be around.

If you want to be effective and professional, you better know your tools well and spend time gaining the required knowledge and experience.

Read and watch at: https://josvisser.substack.com/p/know-thy-tools

When communicating in a professional context, you want every communication to count towards something. This in turn means that you need to have crystal clarity about your goals. If you communicate without a plan, then it should be no surprise that your non-existent plan does not come to fruition.

Read, watch, and subscribe at https://josvisser.substack.com/p/all-communication-is-strategic

For the systems you own, do you ever look at the logs and metrics? If not, you are not the owner, you are, at best, the lazy guardian of a bunch of orphans, anyone of which could become the next Voldemort.

Read, watch, and subscribe at https://josvisser.substack.com/p/the-burdens-of-ownership