Low standards: manifested as “good enough”
One of my biggest issues. And it’s not directed at me. It’s at my people. I hold myself to impeccable standards. But let my people off the hook.
Two issues I see.
First I let them stumble because I downgrade their capabilities until proven wrong.
Second it’s my tendency to help. Both stem from the same place.
And it all leads to a lower functioning team.
The fix: empowerment and failure.
Give them room to grow or fail. All I can do is coach, not do.
Coding is fun yet hard.
Sometimes I get to sections I have no clue about. Stopping to think it through helps. Most times I just need to let my brain rest.
Learning the skills is great when I can practically apply what i learned.
HTML and CSS are easy because I grab my text editor and start building websites. Even if they never see the light of day the process is helpful.
That’s how I learn best. Attacking projects that put my skills to the test. And then, when I get stuck. Read-Search-Ask in that order and usually I can figure it out.
My goal is to be skilled enough to be a software engineer. Maybe I will use that skill set as a job or maybe I will build a business around it. Either way I’m learning.
I plowed through a few courses the first few weeks of the year. Taking a two day break now.
Then on to learning my first Framework: React.
Started studying and levelling up my code skills this year. Feeling pretty great about my choice. Here is some of the work I’ve been doing. All this work was done through Codecademy. Hit me up and let’s do some collaboration work.
