Soft Skills

Listening is one of the most important soft skills a developer should work on. Why? What is active listening? How to do it? In what situation?

Depending on its intensity, the imposter syndrome can be a gruesome feeling causing other mental health issues like burnout or even depression. What's the imposter syndrome? Where does it come from? Can we overcome it? Let's look at the studies on the subject to gather some answers.

Cognitive biases can bring mistakes, bugs, and wrong implementations. Knowing what cognitive biases are, what are the most common ones in software development, and how to fight them, can help you takes more logical decisions and create effective solutions.

We love, in the software industry, to give to each others titles. Junior developer, senior software engineering, front end programmer, and so on and so forth. Is these titles meaningful? What information do they carry about the people holding them? Can we think about a whole new set of titles, translating more accurately what really want companies from their developers?

As developers, we are alternatively teachers and learners. How to share efficiently our knowledge while avoiding the filthy expert blind spot? The cognitive load theory can help us understand the problem, and logging your knowledge acquisition process can be a powerful solution.