The majority of experienced developers who responded to this thread applied for a job or joined a company after learning more about it at a corporate engineering blog. u/improbablywronghere wrote, “Finding a blog post from a company is like you an interviewer at some company finding a public GitHub repo…

#2: Let doubt or looking dumb stop you from trying — Most people think about creativity as a mystical trait; creativity is something you’re either born with, or not. You have it, or you don’t. As a close student and practitioner of creativity, in my book Creative Doing and interviews, I constantly debunk this myth. I make the case that everybody…

#2: Stop judging your own work — As an author of a book on creativity, I spend a lot of time discussing creativity with people who want to be more creative. They’ll say things like: “I had some bad experiences as a child, and that made me feel like I wasn’t creative. I’ve always been interested in…

“If you have writer’s block, you’re not reading enough.” Nikki Giovanni — I first started writing because I love reading. I read a fair amount; I write a newsletter where I recommend three books each month to thousands of people. Outside of the Best of Books newsletter, I’ve reviewed books for Lifehacker and written about reading for Business Insider. Naturally, these experiences…

A dive into the collaborative writing process, with or without AI — “Don’t like to write, but like having written,” is a quote that has stood the test of time for writers. I’ve written my own book Creative Doing, I write at my blog every day, and I’ve led teams of writers and editors for years, so I actually really enjoy writing…

5 lenses to guide your business’s development — While I’ve worked with a lot of really great clients, I’ve also had some prospects tell me that my business’s services were way too expensive. In fact, some of them seemed to get offended when they saw Wonder Shuttle’s rate card, or when I told them the price over the…

Why it’s okay to crawl before you can run — It’s easy for gravitational pull — fear, doubt, uncertainty, lenience, confusion — to draw a project out longer than it needs to take. Especially at a large company, it feels like the more time and money you have, the better it’ll turn out. Of course, that’s not true; I’ve done…

Struggling to find your passion? These 3 keys will guide you — When I was growing up, my parents would describe me as a “generalist.” They didn’t mean it in a bad way — they were too! — though it also meant it wasn’t so obvious where my career would go, or what my skills were. I could develop my skills at…

Not all income is created equal — One property of money is fungibility: a dollar is a dollar. To the bank, whether you or I make $10,000 working for ourselves, or $10,000 working for the worst boss in the world, it’s the same $10,000. Still, the way you and I make this money is not interchangeable. We…