Candost's Blog

Candost's Blog

Candost

I used to think that reading would make me wise. One day, ten pages before finishing a book, I realized that I had read that same book before. At that point, my perspective on reading and, therefore, my life had changed. Now, I don’t care how many books I read; I take many notes, connect dots, and share what I’ve found on my blog and newsletter. I’m interested in many things at the same time (I’m a multipotentialite). On this blog, you’ll find me talking to about multiple aspects of life like leadership, software engineering, philosophy, psychology, software architecture & design, urban & industrial design, exercising, finance, Formula1 Racing, eating healthy, and many more. I’m a software engineering manager; that’s my current job. At home, I’m a writer and an avid reader. I rarely watch TV, movies or TV series. I don’t have any social media account (except Mastodon where I have automated posting of my new articles). Hence, I often miss the popular culture references in conversations. That’s alright. I don’t have FOMO; I embrace JOMO. I rarely read fictional books.

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Ask questions to the audience to create engagement. Put yourself into the audience's shoes. They are strangers to you. Will they still get the joy? Will they understand why you think this topic is important? Will they learn something...
LifeLabs Learning developed a rubric to define four kinds of feedback on a public talk. Hearts ♥️: Positive, but not specific. (I liked your talk) Diamonds ♦️: Positive, specific, and actionable. (Your talk is good. If you do this, it...
Tell in the beginning that you expect your audience to write something in the chat, or you’ll have the options to invite them to talk directly. When they know that they will be asked to engage, they can shake the “shyness.” Source(s): A...
Choosing the technology, creating a new product, or even a company has its stages. In each stage, we figure out how to approach a problem. There are two different unknowns. We have known unknowns. We know that there is a thing we have to...
When technology is boring, it has its standards set. We not only know how to use it but also know the failures if we use it wrong. New technologies have more unknown unknowns than older ones. Older ones have that too, but the set is a...
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Writing up evaluations of 1, 3, and 5 years later and thinking ahead clears the mind and creates achievable goals. At the same time, these goals need to be measurable. We can't say "improve test results" as a goal. We need to define how...
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Strong product teams solve problems instead of focusing on delivering a product or a feature (a.k.a. output). Strong product leaders define the strategy and identify the problems for these teams. The strategy serves customers (not...
Being a consistent writer is one of the underrated and underestimated skills. If the writing and publishing are not in a rhythm, the success is very low. Most blog authors fail, not because they are bad at writing but because they are...

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