Change is often anxiety inducing. What’s happening? Why? Will everything be ok? If you know me, you’ll know I used to be a great person for routine, I did the same thing everyday at exactly the same time in exactly the same way. The key word there is “used to be”. You see despite being…
There comes a time in your career where you hit a point that the money you’re getting provides what makes you feel comfortable. That can mean different things to different people. It may be that your job allows you to afford rent in the fancy part of town that you always dreamed of living. It…
Chances are if you work remotely your team will either use Slack or Teams, sure there are some other alternatives but in the interest of not writing out 50 competitors, let’s take the two. These tools are great, making collaboration across time-zones simple when people are only a message away. Yet therein lies the problem,…
2021 is almost over and with that comes a new year. Whether you set goals at the start of a new year or throughout, the end of a year is always a good reflection point. To look back at what went right, and where you’d like to improve for next year. Professionally, personally or both. …
I’ve written briefly before about how I see differently things being on the Autistic spectrum. And today I want to dive in a bit deeper on some specifics. Now before I do, I want to make it clear, it’s a spectrum for a reason, and it impacts people in a variety of ways. For me…
Everywhere you see “that’s WordPress, our plugin isn’t responsible for that”. That’d be like buying a car and your brakes don’t work. Take it back to the dealer and they say “That’s a Brembo problem not ours”. Maybe you’re reading that and thinking “well that’s dumb”… exactly. It’s stupid right? Sure maybe it’s a manufacturing…
NFTs are all the rage. $100k for a jpg, heck even a million dollars for a png. Seems like a lot of money right? And you’d be correct it is a lot of money, but why are people paying so much for digital pieces that someone else can screenshot. I don’t know a ton about…
Communication is tough, make no mistake about it. I’m no expert, you’re not an expert and anyone that says they are well they most likely aren’t. Communicating in a traditional office environment you have social queues, body language and often real-time communication. Transitioning to a remote-work environment can be a culture shock, someone says “ok”….
I don’t have a degree. I didn’t complete my education. I spent less than 1,000 hours on my traditional education between the ages of 12-16. You might have seen me say before on Twitter that I’m self taught and I mean it. See I had a tough time with School and my school and education…
Let me tell you I’ve historically been terrible at setting boundaries when working remotely which may make you think “Jack, how can you advise me to set boundaries if you can’t even do it yourself”. That’s because I’ve been there and bought the t-shirt. You know the drill, team members located around the world, 4,…