Category: Blog

What’s your learning path?

We live in a constantly changing world, what are you going to do? How do you plan to adapt, to increase your skills?

Some jobs are naturally bounded to learning, some more than others, while some jobs are more prone to relaxing. You do what you do because the business pressure is high and you get paid anyway.

But what if you could transform that high pressure day-2-day life in a low pressure by learning some new things?
We get flooded by request, but it’s when we are flooded by requests and tasks that it’s time to sit back, relax, and understand what we can do to reduce the amount of work while improving the work we do.

We live in a world saturated with reviews, sometimes I feel like I can’t choose anything without a review.

Sure, they’re somewhat helpful if you remove the paid reviews, but yet, didn’t you tried something with no review?

I was thinking that I have a small passion for shaving “old style” and I somewhat introduced a dear friend of mine to this passion.
Between the two I’m always the one trying new things and sharing it with my friend. I’m fine with it, but the nice thing is that each time I make a leap, because I am not always sure about the reviews. Sometimes they’re there, sometimes they’re not.

But that feeling, that leap that you do when you try something totally new, it’s not ok to leave it as a thing of the past. Don’t wait for a review. Test your skills.

Today I found and fixed a really nasty bug, one that was difficult to find.

Before me, 4 different people were contacted. These people were internal employee of the company  having the bug, while I was an outside consultant.

Now, if this seems like I’m bragging, fear not, I hate this. 
I hate this because I see how much a simple situation could have been already fixed in a matter of time.

Let’s rewind for a second.
4 different people, employees. No one  helped. All commented giving “generic” directions.
I was asked to help, I did it. They didn’t want me to get access to the source, to the machine having the problem, not without the paperwork.

Ok I say, give me the paperwork. They explain to me the process of obtaining the papers to sign, but they don’t give me that paper.

I find a way around it to test it so that I (a consultant) help them and in the end I get to find the bug, understand the reason why it happens, and fix it.

Nice little story, isn’t it. But the sad truth is that anyone could’ve found the line and the object that caused the bug, if only they spent time analyzing using some kind of basic scientific method + some exlusions to reduce the variables.

What they might have not been able to find is the reason, but the culprit? It was in plain sight. 

But no, an entire company, with 100 skilled people couldn’t do it.

I always felt like we, as humans, were meant to go against the system, to fight for all the situations where we were caged, abused, abandoned.
But it’s not the system fault. We are the fault.

We are afraid to make mistakes, to lose. We want to show off, to be in the rules.
We are the system.
And it’s not the system’s fault.

Your back hurts, you can’t move freely. Suddenly you watch tv and here it goes, the solution to everything. Take some aspirin and the pain is gone.

It’s true, but the pain will soon appear again, in the future.
Because you didn’t fix the problem, you fixed the symptom.

This way of thinking goes well beyond pains and aches. What if you apply it constantly in your work, in your life?

What if you could move your thinking from simptoms to systems, what would it change in terms of how much value you add to the world?

Lately I’m having tinnitus more often than not. Today seems like a normal, constant, sound of my life. What’s even more worrying is that I can’t fix it. 

A doctor goes through many phases to understand and cure a patient. First of all he guess, based on the information the patient gave him, and, if possible, the data he can check directly.

Then he checks upon his guesses. And there’s the magic.
It either goes well or not.

You always have to wait, test, retry if it fails.