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Understanding design unicorns

A designer’s ability to move between creative functions is not a luxury, it’s a business necessity

The Civil Service competency framework, sets out how we want people in the Civil Service to work.

If I'm stuck in a creative downturn, there's usually only one remedy: keep going. That is, accept the downturn, but continue to stare at the computer, waiting for it to pass. While staring at the computer, there's room for menial and managerial tasks put aside during more inspired times. Checking up on things, getting back to people, a...

In this series of short stories, I share tricky situations I’ve encountered while leading teams. These experiences have taught me invaluable leadership lessons and greatly influenced my manag…

Over the last year, I have managed seven developers (iOS and Android) inside a Mobile Team with Quality Engineers, Product managers and…

Some things that aren't worth doing are worth overdoing. Click to read Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward, by Dylan Black, a Substack publication with hundreds of readers.

Few things are as costly and disruptive as good people walking out the door.

Hammering the cramps.

Researchers proved decades ago that venting won’t make you feel better.

Resist the temptation to let machines manage you

Helping your team to thrive with flow state

You cannot automate creativity to create the unknown

Strategies to help find creative inner discipline, seek perfection, push beyond and demystify.

Baptiste Bouffaut, our CTO here at Ponicode, recently joined us for a chat about programming languages and what we can expect them to look like in the future. Here are the main areas we covered:

Positive thinking and visualising success can actually make you miserable – happily, other strategies for fulfilment are available

Time has a monetary value to you. That is, money and time can be traded for one another in lots of circumstances, and there are prices that you are willing to take and prices you are not. Hopefully…

With more people working from home, asynchronous communication will become key to being productive while keeping our sanity. What are its benefits? What strategies can you use to embrace asynchronous communication at work? I have a confession to make. I think Slack is awful. It’s distracting, noisy, and makes it hard to get the information ... Read more

Most peope think they have a growth mindset. This is called the “false growth mindset”—to learn how it actually works, you need to turn to Carol Dweck.

All creatives are searching for a way to demonstrate that their work has a concrete business value. But does such a measurement really exist?

Damit das Tao of Programming nicht verlorengeht, wenn das Original mal verschwindet...

Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making tool, and at the time I felt it almost always led to the correct decision. It also helped me articulate why I disagreed with some of my peers’ decisions, which violated this hierarchy by placing individual or team preferences over the company’s priorities.

A brief introduction to keeping your body moving as someone who spends a lot of time sitting down.

The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.

Learning from Entrepreneurs, Rickshaw Drivers and Poker-PlayersThe two founders of WhatsApp applied for a job at Facebook back in 2009, but their applications were rejected. Instead they went on t…

How elite coders outperform the rest

The key is to understand the difference between habits, routines, and rituals, and to design a life where your daily actions allow you to play with the entire spectrum of consciousness.