Philosophy

Some people I know tend to have an air of confidence around them. They wield their Steve Jobs reality distortion field, commanding attention and persuading people. They almost always act like they are certain of everything.

My natural inclination appears to be the opposite: I tend to be careful until I have done a careful analysis. I only act confident when I am sure, which can take a while. I think a lot about whether I am doing the right thing.

Experience has given me reason to believe that I am more self-aware than many other people. Yet I have also learned that this self-awareness comes at a price. Thus, I have been wondering why I am like this, and what I should learn from self-certain people.

There’s something wrong with the way most companies do performance reviews. Here’s why, and here’s how I do them.

Lots of friction and frustration in teams are caused by miscommunication. How do these occur and what should be our attitude towards them?

Over the course of twenty years, I’ve noticed that my philosophy about software and the development thereof differs significantly from many other software developers and IT people. Here’s how, and here’s why I think coding should not be the most important thing.