Timber summertime
before a young, white leaves hunts
on the understand

Make Community an Essential Part of Your Effort

Building a community is essential for the success of any software project. Introducing collaboration to the workflow of a company will probably revolve more around code than on culture at first. While coding is at the core, the culture change to collaboration and community building is something that needs to grow on an organization and needs to be nurtured without having a specific focus on software development.

Think about specifically assigning a community manager keeping the big picture on the social collaboration aspects of your endeavour. …

My father died, in 2012, after a period of vulnerability and failing health. I did not cry, but was confronted with an unwieldy sadness deep inside.

Letting go of one of your parents is one of the inevitable accidents in life that has tremendous impact and disrupts feelings. In preparation of this whale’s tail I already prepared by letting go of many attachments and consolidated the fact that the relationship with my father was coming to an end in a foreseeable future. …

Writing is something you should just do. Put the words in a certain order, see what works, see what doesn’t. Only in the doing can you unearth your voice. It is kinda like a sculptor carving out the shape that is already there. It is important to decide from the beginning from what perspective you would write the story. Is that first person, third person, transparent. Making mistakes is the only way to move forward in writing, as in many other things. It is not about waiting to have a genius idea or waiting for inspiration. …

Running the daily marathon made sense until one unusual gray day the path suddenly ended abruptly. Not that Aileana did not see it coming, but it came unexpected nonetheless. Donna mentioned on previous occasions that a lockdown was inevitable.

Inevitable was a word the marauders used quite a bit these days. The course events had taken during the past seasons showed no sign of reversing. Donna’s trips into the outer layers made her convinced the situation was hardly sustainable. The Northern parts of High Terrain were slowly crumbling into the vastness of the ice sheet that was rapidly moving south…

Challenge your thinking and create a new mindset

An open and playful mind is a sound basis for innovation. Opening up the mind towards creativity is a challenge as we tend to remain trains of thought, our comfort zone. How do we define the open mind and how to reach such a state connecting our work and play together for living better and creating a better, vibrant, world while doing that?

Play To Innovate is not about colourful bubble clay, Nerf Guns, cardboards, pens, strings and so on…. …

The acronym K.I.S.S. is mostly used in software project management and is referred to in many cases as Keep It Simple and Stupid. Its origins lie at Lockheed Skunk Works, creators of the (in)famous U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes.

There are a few variants of K.I.S.S. that basically come down to the same meaning. Acronyms are powerful, because they are used as one word potentially also conveying the meaning of that word. Acronyms are both easy to pronounce and to remember.

We recently made up another, more positive variant, in a conversation my friend and coach Ravi Chhabra. …

“Young man, there is an angel inside this rock, and I am setting him free.“
- David Michelangelo

Life can be hard at times and we find ourselves immersed in some undetermined feeling coming from nowhere. That day things do not seem to get finished, everyone is bitchy, the rain keeps pouring and you just do not know what to cook for dinner.

Everything around us keeps us so busy and distracted at the same time we forget to smile.

We easily adopt the undetermined feeling like a part of life often modelling ourselves on behaviour of people around us.

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