ex-coder

You Never Know Who’s Listening

When you’re more junior in your career, feedback comes at you from all directions. You get regular check-ins, performance reviews, comments on your work, and peers giving you instant reactions to your work or ideas. You’re surrounded by inputs, affirmation, and opportunities to course-correct. You know when you’re doing well because people tell you. But…
What I Wish I Knew: Lessons From the Target Range to the Boardroom

I was a 13-year-old kid with a broken arm from a rollerblading accident and no real direction in life other than cracking jokes, riding my bike, and coasting by with minimum input. That summer before I started high school, my grandfather sat me down and asked the kind of question grandparents love to ask: “So,…

You Never Know Who’s Listening