Posts Tagged ‘ Life ’

My Friend John was Shot – Please Help

November 4, 2009
By chad at ChadFowler.com - Home
My Friend John was Shot – Please Help

My friend and fellow Rails developer John Lannon, lead developer at http://resonantvibes.com, was mugged last night while picking up dinner for his wife. He didn’t have anything on him to give to the robbers and they shot him point b...
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Toward an Agile Career Development Methodology

September 4, 2009
By chad at ChadFowler.com - Home

Since finishing The Passionate Programmer I’ve been putting a lot of thought into how to package the advice from the book into something more structured, serial, and prescriptive.The Amazon reviews for the book are almost all glowing...
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Upcoming Travel and Speaking Engagements

August 4, 2009
By chad at ChadFowler.com - Home

I gave myself a little break this spring and early summer, but the pace is about to pick up again. The rest of the year is looking pretty busy. Here’s what the rest of this year looks like so far. If...
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How Learning a Second Language Changed My Life

August 2, 2009
By chad at ChadFowler.com - Home
How Learning a Second Language Changed My Life

There’s an old joke I heard in India which goes something like this:What do you call a person who speaks many languages? MultilingualWhat do you call a person who speaks two languages? BilingualWhat do you call a person who s...
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Productivity tip: Let Derek Sivers Take Notes for You

July 1, 2009
By chad at ChadFowler.com - Home

I just finished reading the inspiring The E-Myth Revisited, which like my own first book My Job Went to India suffers from an incredibly bad name.This is definitely one of the most practically useful and potentially career-changing bus...
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Things I mentioned in my Ruby Nation presentation

June 13, 2009
By chad at ChadFowler.com - Home

I had a great time at Ruby Nation this weekend. After my presentation I got a number of questions asking about things I referenced during the talk. Here’s an attempt to point to some of them. If you weren’t there, you won’t...
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The Unexpected Consequences of Consumerism

June 8, 2009
By chad at ChadFowler.com - Home

I’m reading Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts. I’m only a quarter of the way through it and it’s already worth the price. In the third chapter, Rolf talks about the American reaction to...
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The missing first words from The Passionate Programmer

May 25, 2009
By chad at ChadFowler.com - Home

While I was working on The Passionate Programmer I had the following Kurt Vonnegut quote (from A Man Without A Country) at the top of the introduction. Right before we published it, my editor reminded me that we had to get permission...
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What would you rather be doing?

May 2, 2009
By chad at ChadFowler.com - Home
What would you rather be doing?

For the first several years of my career in IT, I spent a lot of time thinking about what I’d rather be doing while at work. I might be in a meeting, talking about how to improve the uptime of a billing...
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Managing your Life the Agile Way in 2009

December 28, 2008
By Robby Russell at Robby on Rails
Managing your Life the Agile Way in 2009

We’re just a few days away from 2009 and it’s that time when we all start looking back at the last year and set goals for the coming new year. I felt like sharing some of my thoughts on how I’m aiming to approach the new year.Historically, I’ve never been a huge fan of...
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