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Navigating Uncertainty: Software Engineering and Epistemic Learned Helplessness
Explore the impact of epistemic learned helplessness on software engineering, and discover strategies to diminish its hindering effects on decision-making in a fast-paced industry.
How to Get Your Work Recognized — 6 Strategies
Explore strategies to enhance your software engineering career, focusing not just on technical skills but also on recognition, personal branding, and visibility.
The 5 Common Mistakes Of New Engineering Managers
The most common mistakes new engineering managers make, why they happen, and how to correct them early.
The 4 Key Ways We Fail As Engineering Managers
Being a successful engineering manager is not easy. Learn about the 4 key ways of failure you need to watch.
The stories we tell ourselves
We have a mechanism that creates unhappiness, difficulty changing habits, relationship problems, frustration, anger and disappointment. We are usually not aware of this, but it is happening continuously and in all of us.
Learning at work is work
Everyone agrees that constant learning and having a growth mindset are fundamental to success in software engineering. Yet once you are done with onboarding at your new job as a software engineer the rat race seems to …
Engineering managers, stop coding!
Try this instead: every time you feel the urge to write code, instead spend the time reading or learning something related to management.
Staying motivated while growing
The key to progress is the temptation of constant challenge, with tasks that remain both achievable and interesting, broken up into pieces of work that are just right.