Steph Smith
Writer and podcaster on remote work, technology and continuous growth; publishes at stephsmith.io.
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Writing is a skill that can be acquired through continuous effort and a low-friction process.
Their wordsI hope this article inspires the writer inside each person reading this, through the understanding that writing is a skill that can be acquired through continuous effort, easily accessed by creating a process with less friction.
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Their wordsBy improving your writing, you are also improving your ability to think and vice versa.
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Their wordsThe best way to improve your writing skills is to write (and to write a lot).
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsThat subliminal relationship ended up being one of the most powerful lessons that I've learned: opportunity is often present, but almost always hidden. It must be seized, and in many cases created.
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Their wordsIf instead you choose to orient around what you can change, through diversifying your skillset and experience, you are indeed learning to become anti-fragile.
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Their wordsIf you take average risks you will, by definition, get average results. This is true both in business and in life.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAlthough you don't often find leadership books calling for this underrated trait, I would argue that humility is a leader's greatest asset.
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Their wordsYour role is to prioritize the success of your team over your own. That is the most common thing that new leaders miss: your new role is not just a continuation of your old.
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Their wordsGood leaders recognize that their ability to inspire is not based out of the things they say, but the things they do. By leading through influence, leaders not only make things easier for their team, but also for themselves, as their team will reward their acts of camaraderie with mutual respect and effort.
- 8 weeks earlier
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Companies could gain a competitive advantage by opening their doors to the remote workforce.
Their wordsAs more companies search for "creative ways to recruit employees", I can't help but wonder if they could develop a strong, yet overnight, competitive advantage by simply opening their doors up to the remote workforce.
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Their wordsIn short, by enabling remote work, you are inadvertently training your people to improve the way they think and how they can achieve more.
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Accessing a pool of remote candidates provides a competitive advantage in the war for talent.
Their wordsIn the "war for talent", there is no better competitive advantage than getting access to thousands of candidates that your competitors are too fearful to explore.
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsGreatness is instead a reflection of a period of effort, since greatness in a single instance can be reduced to luck.
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Consistency is a more certain way to achieve success than relying on luck or being discovered.
Their wordsTo be clear, consistency isn't necessarily the easiest way to success, but one that can be achieved with a higher level of certainty, rather than hoping for a lottery win or someone to "discover" you.
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Their wordsThere's glimmer and hoopla around unpredictability, but in reality, it's much more difficult and therefore impressive, to be predictably good.
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsUpon further consideration, it became apparent that software development often doesn't have the same enforced credentials as some other occupations.
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Their wordsIts lower barrier to entry is what enables so many people to contribute and perpetually keep the industry growing and thriving. That's inherently why no other industry can keep up with the level of innovation that software allows, not just due to its function, but it's openness.
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The open source nature of learning and creating will continue to make the software industry thrive.
Their wordsThe open source nature of both learning and creating is what I believe will continue to make the software industry thrive for many years to come, due to the systems in place which allow for open contribution.