When I was a kid — I was never the best basketball player on the team. I was never the best saxophone player in the band. I was never the best student in my class either. It’s not that I wasn’t good — it’s just that there were always better…

Every once in a while I’m asked why am I staying an engineer and not moving to management. In the eyes of many of the people around me, staying an engineer means not advancing your career. I think it’s only because we struggle in growing engineers. It’s easy to demonstrate…

Whoever knows me from high school knows what a “Gadon Story” is. It stands for my unique ability to tell long and pointless stories. I was so good at telling bad stories — that a whole term was created on behalf of my name. I liked the attention so I…

Le Tour De France is happening these days. Cyclists from all around the world come in their best shape to race in one of the hardest road races that exist. These cyclists prepare all season in order to race at peak performance. What is peak performance? How do they achieve…

Ambiguity is intimidating. Taking the responsibility on the path to take, on mapping the risks correctly, on building the execution plan. In my day to day, dealing with complex and uncertain projects can lead to mental difficulties. Dealing with them successfully, though, is a real growth experience. In some sense…

In order to learn how to write, you first need to learn how to read. One of the best ways to improve your writing is to read more content from a variety of authors. Why should it be different in coding? Have you ever seen a coding course that actually…

Software Engineers tend to think that being a successful engineer means being an awesome coding machine. It’s true that with the ability to code, you’ll be able to get things done and move quite fast. …

The ability to make things happen using a coding language and some lines of code is great and super important, but unfortunately it is not enough to define one as an independent developer. Because, in my opinion, development is not all about coding. I will define a developer to be…