Development Experience(s)

It took me a while, but I've finally finished Radical Candor ! I found the book tough to get through, but do believe it was time well spent. I would recommend the book to aspiring managers as it tells stories about a variety of situations that can arise on the job and helps you think through them. The book starts with encouraging the reader to build meaningful relationships with people you work with, arguing that maintaining these relationships will be key when you later try to get, give and encourage guidance. Kim Scott emphasizes the importance in understanding what motivates each person on your team - which part of their job to they particularly enjoy; which parts do they suffer through; is there something else they're eyeing? - so that you then can drive results collaboratively. In part 2 of the book, Kim gives you a series of tools and techniques to build these relationships, establish trust and gives you ideas for getting, giving and encouraging praise and criticism (we n

I keep coming back to AutoHotKey to help me automate/streamline things I do on a daily basis. If you get inspired by this post, I urge you to suffer through the pain and write your scripts yourself, however (rather than downloading them), as they will act on your behalf (and therefore cause damage). Anyway, I found myself creating new documents based on old one. It felt natural to Duplicate  the old document with CTRL+D as you'd do in Mac with CMD+D (or as you'd do in, say PowerPoint to duplicate a slide). CTRL+D however, deletes a document in Windows Explorer. Great sadness. To fix the sadness, I adopted my AHK script to include #IfWinActive, ahk_exe Explorer.EXE ^d::Send ^c^v That is, in Windows Explorer windows, when I press CTRL+D , I actually want to send CTRL+C followed by CTRL+V to duplicate an entry. Other fun sections in the scripts are #IfWinActive, Microsoft Visual Studio ::gt::=>  ::fn::() =>  That is, in Visual Studio, when I type gt , I actually want