Last year I read The Making of a Manager book by Julie Zhou. It is such a great book I read it again this year. Below is a short review and some quotes the inspired me. I also added a few more quotes that I found inspiring during my second read. I recommend this book…More
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The app I’m using for my to do list
(drum roll) It’s the native Apple Notes app. I know, perhaps it sounds boring but let me explain. Like many people out there I have tried many different to do apps. This is just a short list. I tried Any.do, TickTock, Google Keep, Trello, WorkFlowy, Notion, Taskade, Todoist and probably a dozen others. I always…More
What is no-code?
What is no-code development? More
Why developers have influence today?
When people ask me what I do, I tell them I’m in Developer Advocacy/Relations space. Most people look at me confused and say: what? Even folks who are in a software space usually don’t know what this role is. To help better understand what we do I tell them that we work with developers where…More
A year of blogging every week
Last January I set a goal for myself to publish a blog post every week that offer some value, even if small (I actually started in February 2019). I couldn’t miss even a single week, no excuses. I had to publish something. Now, not every blog post was a long-form, in fact most blog posts…More
How many developers did we help?
Measuring success in Developer Relations is always one of the most interesting questions or challenges. Every organization does it differently – from measuring how many stickers were handed out, how many Twitter followers one has, to how many people attended a conference talk, to how many API calls were made. There are many more things…More
Make developers awesome
Last September I was in a meeting with Burr Sutter. Burr runs Global Developer Advocacy at Red Hat. We were talking about Developer Advocacy and I remember Burr saying something along these lines: Our job is to make developers awesome I right away thought about this image: I think the first time I saw this…More
Developers don’t hate marketing
A few weeks ago I attended Evans Data Developer Marketing Summit. During a panel one person said: “Developers hate marketing” I don’t agree with that. I think developers don’t like bad marketing. People in general don’t like bad marketing so I don’t think developers are any special here. When someone says “developers hate marketing”, I…More
“The Making of a Manager”, a book I highly recommend and some of my favorite parts
There are thousands of books on how to be a manager and I’m sure many of them are very good. I just finished reading The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhou. I loved the book and highly recommend to new managers, not so new managers and people who might want to be managers one…More
Applying the Fogg Behavior Model to Developer Relations
Applying the Fogg Behavior Model to Developer RelationsMore