210 Stories To Learn About Personal Development

Let's learn about Personal Development via these 210 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

Improving yourself is hard, but you don't have to go at it alone. Check out these stories to get on the road to success.

1. I Quit My Job at the Age of 36 to Be Happy

Hi! my name is O. I am the founder of Goodnight Journal, where people come to write their own private and public journals. In this blog article, I want to share my own story about quitting my job and working on the app that I’m passionate about while traveling.

2. The Matthew Principle of Accumulated Advantage and How the Poor Get Poorer

The Matthew Effect or Matthew Principle of accumulated advantage, is sometimes summarized by the adage "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer".

3. I’m an ENTP - Now what?

I know for a while that I “categorise” as an ENTP(-A). It struck me how accurate this describes my personality. An ENTP is known to be a debater who thrives on the process of shredding arguments and comes with an extreme objective/rational way of thinking.

4. Transitioning to Product Management: Resume Writing Tips for Novices

Useful tips on how to write your resume if you are looking for a product manager job.

5. The "Great Regret" and How to Avoid it when Switching Jobs

This article addresses things to take note of, before you switch jobs to avoid the "Great regret"

6. Saying No to Your Boss is Never Easy, But Sometimes it's Necessary

It was a Friday morning and I was waiting in the conference room for my manager. We had just achieved a great milestone as a team and delivered a highly critical time sensitive project. It wasn’t an ordinary success as the entire organization was counting on this platform for a mega event.

7. Here's Why I Quit a 6-Figure GitHub Salary To Become a Solopreneur

Last week I left GitHub.

8. Why You Should Quit Social Media Permanently

Quitting social media permanently will improve your friends relationship, sense of identity, fear of politics, and maximize your attention span.

9. Here's Why You Need Compelling Copy On Your 'About Me' Page

The ‘About Me’ section of your website, LinkedIn profile, or your social media accounts is the most important copy you’ll ever write. Here's how to write it!

10. Four Things to do Before and After You're Laid Off

One of the hardest things to deal with about a layoff is that it is unexpected for the person laid off. Take these steps to deal with it if /when it happens.

11. How to Escape the Hedonic Treadmill

Remember this: Find meaning in what you do, and start with why. Pleasure will follow.

12. You Can Become a Better Developer by Mastering the Super Power of Deep Work Habit

Have you ever dreamed to wake up one morning and realize you felt different, more powerful. As if you had this super power inside of you that it waiting to be used. You'd meet someone very old and wise. He would tell you that you've actually had this super power for a very long time. But you need to go through a very difficult training phase to master it.

13. An Evidence-Based Guide to Nootropics and Cognitive Enhancement [Comic]

After years of listening to people preach misinformed rubbish about nootropics and cognitive enhancement, I decided to do the responsible thing and write a comic to preach myself.

14. Six Life Benefits of Waking Up at Five AM Everyday

Discover how the 5AM Club can benefit software engineers, their career, life and health.

15. Personal Finance for Software Engineers: Things I've Learned

Personal Finance is something that is, for better or worse, not a required class. Here are some basic things I wish I knew when I started working in software.

16. Are You Suffering From Achievemephobia?

What in the world is - achievemephobia?

17. How Successful Managers Delegate Work Effectively

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, right? The perfectionist in you likes to be in control and is good at finding excuses - “Outcome won’t be as good.” “It will take me longer to assign and explain than to do it myself.” “I don’t have anyone with the right skills.” “No one in the team wants to do it anyway.”

18. The Curse of Success

Failure may be the most important part of the human experience. So why not run towards it?

19. What I Learned From 3.5 Years as a Product Leader at a VC Backed SaaS Startup

I first heard of Elium, formerly known as Knowledge Plaza, in 2011. I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision.

20. Dealing With Narcissists: How to S.L.A.Y. Any Dispute

Rebecca Zung | Negotiating with Narcissists: How to S.L.A.Y. Any Dispute

21. 'You are a Scientist in Your Own Lab': How to Set Your Goals

Everyone likes to achieve success at work, but very few take the time to define what “success” means to them.

22. 10 Things Every New Developer Should Know

Tips for New Developers starting a new career.

23. 50 Highest-Paying Cities in the United States for Software Engineers

Based on salaries and total compensation packages, Blind curated a list of the top 50 highest - paying cities for software engineers in the United States.

24. How the Job Market Is Being Misrepresented to You

Here are some ways job seekers are misinformed about the job market.

25. Working with Job Recruiters: Everything You Might Want to Know

This is everything you might want to know about job recruiters from a 20-plus-year veteran of the recruiting industry.

26. Why We Shouldn’t Confuse Narcissism with Self Love

t is important not to confuse narcissism with self-love because they are two very different things. Narcissism is a personality disorder characterized by an inf

27. Exploring Shikamaru's Stoicism

The concept of the "will of fire," as taught by Shikamaru's sensei Asuma, contains a lot of Stoic ideals.

28. Why Should a Programmer be a Mentor?

The idea of mentoring is to provide gratuitous assistance to the mentee, therefore, on the one hand, few highly qualified specialists are ready for this.

29. How I Hacked My Schedule for Self Improvement

If you have ever read a self improvement article, a success story about starting a business, or an article about top reasons to be an entrepreneur, this may pr

30. 7 Ways You Can Use Git to Boost Productivity

Git is the most popular source control system. In this post, I'll show some of these features that will make your work easier when using Git.

31. Forget Quiet Quitting, fatFIRE is the Newest Workplace Trend

All the talk about quiet quitting makes it seem like everyone hates their jobs and is just sleepwalking through the workday, but that’s not the case -here's why

32. 10x10: Ten Life Lessons from a Developer After Ten Years in the Industry

After 10 years I realised, there are a bunch of things I wish I would have known before I started programming. Or at least I wish I would have learned sooner.

33. Are You Contributing to a Toxic Work Environment Without Realizing It?

Some of the most toxic managers I have worked with had no clue they were contributing to a toxic work environment. Otherwise pleasant to talk to, these managers seemed to genuinely care about their people. However, what appeared on the outside was not in tune with what went inside their teams. Their good intentions didn’t always translate into the right action.

34. Stop Being a People Pleaser: Must-Read Guide on How to Set Clear and Healthy Boundaries

Do you feel exhausted, even frustrated working hard, putting in extra hours, sometimes even on weekends and late nights trying to catch up on work, but not being able to make progress on your own goals?

35. 14 Small Productivity Principles You Can Start Practicing Today

Early in my career, I placed a lot of focus on doing more in less time. I thought I was being productive. The reality was I was simply scrambling from one task to the next without clarity on whether my work was effective or how I could do better. I focused on the end goal, the result I wanted to achieve without really caring about the process to get there.

36. Important Attributes of an Experienced Programmer: Work and Behavior

This article covers the important features of an experienced programmer — the necessary mindset and personal and professional qualities.

37. Why is This So Hard?

This article explores what good code is and shares some tenets of good structure.

38. A PSA On Being the Average Of The 5 People You Spend The Most Time With

I am pretty sure you’ve heard the saying that you are the average of the 5 people surrounding you, right? I have something to tell you that it is terrifying: It is bullshit, because it's worse.

39. My Challenge to Excel Users: I Dare you to Learn How to Code

What if, instead of starting that next Excel spreadsheet, you tried your hand at trying to write some code to do the exact same thing?

40. In a world full of experts, be a newbie

There’s no such thing as an expert. The experts are just newbies who never stopped learning. So instead of feeling sorry for yourself, embrace your inner newbie

41. Burnout - This is definitely NOT fine

Sometimes it is difficult for us to simply accept that we're experiencing burnout, so it is important to be informed and aware that it exists.

42. Build a Second Brain and Conquer Your Cluttered Mind

Are we drowning in the chaos of too many thoughts and ideas? It seems as though our minds are constantly cluttered. How can we function regardless?

43. The 10 Best Google Chrome Extensions to Help You Expand Your Knowledge

Ben Meer shows 10 Google Chrome extensions to help you expand your knowledge.

44. How Money Works: Value Created, Reach, and Personal Satisfaction

Choosing a career path that will enable you financial solidity is important. Only if you are not struggling financially you will be able to flourish in life

45. When Things Go Wrong, What Happens to Total Compensation?

There is an agreement that if you do your job properly, you will be compensated for it. But what happens to total compensation when things go badly wrong?

46. On 10x Developers and Arrogant Jerks

10x Developers exist, but that’s not the point. Let me explain …

47. The Da Vinci Schedule — How to Organize Your Day and Week for Peak Performance

At the moment, I am working on multiple projects and I identified that structure and proper evaluation of psychological and physiological parameters is the key to ensuring a productive schedule.

48. Four Possible Ways to React to Other People's Happiness or Misery

Schadenfreude, Compassion, Envy and Mudita: explaining how we react to other people's fortunes or misery

49. Forget Story Points and Use this Instead

After decades of using story points estimations, we see its limitations. It ignores the human factor.

50. Before Taking a Payday Loan, Read this!

What you need to know about payday loans. How it works and how to apply payday loan online

51. The Quiet Quitting Trend and Why You Should Not Follow It

According to Blind, white-collar tech professionals have lost 100,826 jobs so far this year. Here is how you can avoid getting laid off this time.

52. Why you don't Need Management Experience for a Leadership Role

You have probably noticed that most management positions require previous management experience. How can you get that experience without getting the job?

53. Self Study Helps Law School Graduate Become a Software Engineer at Amazon

A change of heart and access to a repository of information prompted a law school graduate to purse a career as a programmer.

54. 10 Common Coding Mistakes Data Scientists Should Watch Out For

A look at common mistakes that data scientists make in the process of service delivery.

55. "My first career was a horrible fit for me personality-wise" - An Interview With CEO, Saeid Fard

Learn how Dimensional CEO Saeid Fard turned his career around from finance consulting to tech startups.

56. Debunking 6 Common Stereotypes About Working in IT

Stereotypes about IT still live on. However, every year they seem less and less witty to IT specialists. In this post we've taken apart the most popular ones.

57. How the Japanese Concept Wabi-Sabi can Shape Our Worldview

Wabi-sabi teaches that it takes a conscious effort to slow down and cultivate our minds to cherish the beauty of old, weathered, incomplete or unfinished.

58. Tips to Consider for First Time Conference Speakers

I’m by no means an expert and would say I’m only really at the start of my “career” as a regular conference speaker. I’ve spoken at a handful of big events, including Dot York last October and The Lead Developer London in June 2019.

59. 10 Ways to Prevent Burnout While Working From Home

While working from home has many benefits, it also has the potential for certain drawbacks. Burnout is a serious risk while working from home.

60. 3 Tips for Conquering Your Fear of Delegation

In this article we will briefly discuss why that is so important and a few ways you can conquer your fear of delegating and help your business and you thrive!

61. Predictive Analytics and You: Stagnation by Design

This story begins and ends with algorithms, those series of functions so mathy and boring that rather than think about them at all, most of us would prefer listening to our nine-year-old nephew rattle off a list of his 255 most-favorite Pokemon, organized from most to least interesting.

62. Lessons From My First Software Engineering Job

First steps from freelancing to leading large projects. Tips on getting the most out of your first job. Application process, mentoring, career, soft skills.

63. 10 Companies to Bet the Future of Your Career On

If you’re interested in great rewards, a career with a heavy tilt toward stock-based compensation could be right for you, depending on your risk tolerance.

64. Selling Your Million-Dollar Idea to Management

The relevance and priority of a new idea to management depends heavily on how you package it. Here is a step-by-step guide to get them excited about your idea.

65. The Problem with The Waterfall Model of Personal Development

One of the ideas that I find to be flawed is the necessity of taking time to work on yourself before getting into relationships with others.

66. 36 Questions Every Software Developer Should Ask Potential Employers

“Do you have any questions for us?” the interviewer asks. This is your chance to find out if the company if a good fit for YOU.

67. Buying an iPhone Landed me my First Job as a Developer

Buying an iphone gave me a great idea, that resulted in my first job as a develop, here's how!

68. Online Learning Hits All-Time High, Software Engineer Anton Novikau Brings His Expertise to Talaera

The demand for and interest in the e-learning industry has hit an all-time high.

69. The Quick Guide To Thinking Scientifically About Your Acne

"For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - H.L. Mencken

70. Don't Stop at Writing Code, Create Business Value

Knowing the business needs/problems can help engineers to grow faster. If you don’t know WHAT and WHY, you can’t think of HOW.

71. 5 Tips for Negotiating Your Compensation

Getting paid what you are worth can be a challenge, especially if you don’t know your worth.

72. The Four Rs: How to Become a Good Programmer

Some best practices for how people learn pulled from the research literature and ways of applying them to learning new things as a software engineer.

73. From Mid-level Developer to Engineering Manager: A Story of Professional Growth

Cheslav Novytskyi, Engineering Manager at Innovecs, shares his experience which may be useful for software developers in advancing their careers

74. 5 Mental Tricks to Do Your Best Under Pressure

We all face situations where we need to perform under pressure. Here are 5 mental tricks that work best in such circumstances.

75. 6 Ways To Deal With Toxic People

Negative people are everywhere and learning how to deal with them will go a long way into helping you improve your life and remove stress in the process.

76. I've Been Playing Bass Since I Was 15 And That Made Me A Better Team Lead

I’ve been playing bass since I was 15. I play other instruments as well, but I have always been primarily a bass player.

77. The Philosophy Of Ikigai: Dare To Live The Life Of Your Dreams

Is feeling alive important?

78. Use Github Pages to Create a Portfolio Website with Custom Domain

How to make a simple professional portfolio for beginner developers. Perfect for finding a tech job to help you stand out from other applicants.

79. How I Calmed My Nerves And Finally Overcame My Fear Of Public Speaking

A hundred talks later, I'm still terrified every time I go on stage. How did I ever get on stage, though? Well, here's a little trip down memory lane, the s

80. You, Work, Input, Output and Value; A Complex Relationship

You determine your VALUE

81. A Break Down of Financial Aid for Public Colleges in the US

The Student debt crisis is a pressing issue. As such, this article explores financial aid alternatives to be considered before taking out a student loan.

82. How Communication Skills Help Software Engineers Succeed

In reality, software engineers are not necessarily the worst communicators. However, there are a number of reasons why this bias toward engineers exists.

83. How to Gain Support for Your Ideas and Get Heard

Most of us think our ideas are great and rally them around with the expectation to turn them into something big.

84. Is Perfection An Unreasonable Benchmark?

Before I started turning this question over in my mind, I decided to do something I used to do while preparing for debates when I was in school: I Googled the exact meaning of the word.

85. Is Perfection An Unreasonable Benchmark?

Before I started turning this question over in my mind, I decided to do something I used to do while preparing for debates when I was in school: I Googled the exact meaning of the word.

86. Meet the Writer: Hacker Noon's Contributor Daine Mawer, Associate Director of FEE

Hey! Im Daine! I live in Cape Town, South Africa and I’m the Associate Director for Front-end Engineering, EMEA at 10up

87. Dealing With Impostor Syndrome

Unfounded feelings of being a fraud is the hallmark of Imposter Syndrome but it's only one part of a five-sided coin that can be confronted with time.

88. 7 Ways to Save Cash in Your Daily Budget

Saving money and running a sensible budget has long been important to most people. However, as additional challenges and pressures develop throughout this year, this is becoming more critical than ever for more people. Saving money on a large scale is not always easy, however, there are many small steps you can take to save cash as part of your daily life.

89. Why It’s a Good Idea for Developers to Work with Startups Instead of for Them

What if I told you, it’s possible to get the best of both worlds – to capture the advantages of working with a startup while mitigating the downsides?

90. When I give, I have control: Meet the Writer Baptiste Monnet

Baptiste Monnet, on personal development, cooking videos, and the danger that comes with Lithium mines. Read the latest in the "Meet the writer" series.

91. 3 Basic Tricks to Smash👊 Your Goals

Do you feel unmotivated? Lethargic? Overwhelmed?

92. The Leader's Anatomy: Essential Talents And Skills Of An Engineering Mastermind

Andrii Poddubnyi, an Engineering Director at Innovecs, shared his trajectory and important lessons and outlined the role of people in his career path.

93. Working With a Dominant Personality: I Didn’t Quit and You Shouldn’t Too

It was a Friday morning, and I was quite enthusiastic about the opportunity to present my ideas in front of a large group of people.

94. You Are the Cure to Imposter Syndrome in Data Science

Imposter syndrome is a common experience for data scientists. But there are ways to tackle it and succeed despite it.

95. Understanding Stock As a Component of Total Compensation

Stock options. Many employees of startups and corporations get to hear this term when their compensation is being discussed.

96. Navigating Toxicity in the Workplace

Workplace toxicity can imply many different things to different people, much like the elusive chameleon of the working world.

97. How to work on a startup when your motivation runs out

In most cases, positive motivation drives a person starting a new business. He wants to make the best product, become a leader, or earn a profit. When that positive motivation runs out, there are two possible scenarios.

98. Consistency as a Moat: How to Write More by Prioritizing your Weaknesses

The best way to optimise consistency is to prioritize the things which you're worse at, or where you can have improvement.

99. From Science to Soup: The Power of Transferable Skills

Discover how these top five skills can lead to new career opportunities.

100. Ask These 5 Questions From Your Managers Every Month to 10X The Impact

The gap between how you view your behaviors and actions and how others perceive you is always huge.

101. The Highest Paying Jobs in Cyber Security

Get the latest popular cyber jobs with the highest salaries in the world with a complete guide about them with the profile information

102. The Road to Senior Engineer: Management Is Not Just for Managers

As programmers, there are numerous things we must manage each day in addition to code. The best programmers I know don’t just do a good job of writing code, the

103. 4 Tips That Will Help You Become More Organized as a Developer

Learn how to be more efficient and effective as a software engineer with this simple organizational pattern that anyone can follow.

104. Build Lasting Confidence by Bridging the 'Confidence Gap'

105. Practical Steps for Developing a Working Memory

It’s embarrassing for any executive or professional to forget the name of the person you just met, but it’s not life-changing. It’s the other working memory

106. What Leaders Can do to Encourage Learning and Development

An organization's success depends not only on current capabilities but on the team's ability to grow and adapt. And this is facilitated by its leaders.

107. How Do I Handle Ambiguity as a Leader?

Organizations that thrive are run by leaders who see opportunity in uncertainty, who cut through ambiguity, and who lead with the mindset to gain clarity.

108. How to Reclaim Your Freedom and Take Back Control of Your Life

A sense of control in our life not only rids us of anxiety, it’s the single most critical factor in helping us stay productive at work.

109. How Technology Is Slowly Changing Our Relationships

Technology is rapidly becoming an exceedingly vital part of our daily lives. Today, it has totally taken over our lives, we use it for every little thing, and it has without any doubts forever changed the way in which we keep in touch with the rest of the world.

110. The Value of Assertiveness in the Workplace: An Interview with, DMO, Julia Doronina

Julia Doronina, the CMO at the IT startup G-71, talks about what it means to be a woman in technology and her journey in IT.

111. Follow the Leverage

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

112. Getting to the Promised Land of Software Engineering

A software engineer navigating the benefits of good communication in a remote workplace

113. Critical Tips to Learn Programming Faster

Looking to understand the critical factors to learn programming faster are listed here.

114. 7 Basic Rules for Better Decision-Making in Business

Every manager has to undertake a tricky task of teaching employees to make the right decisions, the ones that will be profitable for the business. As my team was growing, I also came to realize I had to delegate responsibility. I don’t like to be micromanaged — so I don’t micromanage my team. My job is to lead people, not to be a bottleneck. I was lucky that Skyeng is all about principle-based decision-making; this is what makes an annual growth of 200% possible. I only had to take those corporate principles, or rules, and apply them to my field of commercial products. I’ll talk about my rules in this article.

115. Top 4 Soft Skills Every New Engineer Should Learn

Engineers must have a combination of both technical skills and soft skills. Here are the top 5 soft skills for engineers.

116. Delivering Bad News to Your Boss? Here's 7 Strategies to Build Your Credibility and Still Look Good

Work won’t be fun if it’s just a straight line to where we need to go.

117. Taking Personal Initiative

How To Take Personal Initiative

118. The Importance of Networking for Landing Remote Jobs

Networking: whether the prospect fills you with dread or excitement — this article is for you. Nothing maximizes your chances of finding awesome and inspiring opportunities as much as connecting with other people — as long as you approach it in the right way. And it might just be easier than you think.

119. The Feynman Technique: The Secret to Learning

Learn How To Learn With the Feynman Technique

120. Choosing Your First Software Development Job: Factors to Consider

Getting into the field of software development is a smart career move. Many employers are looking for developers and often struggle to fill these roles. Not only that but salaries and benefits are extremely competitive in our tech-centric world.

121. 4 Common Types of Critics, and How To Handle Their "Feedback"

Doling out advice, hurling negative comments, passing mean remarks - we have all done it. Given an opportunity, it’s easy to assume the role of an expert and tell others how wrong they are, why their product isn’t good enough, why their idea will never work, how they should behave, what they should do. Why seek permission when we feel right in our criticism?

122. Escaping the Shadow of the Freelance Flag

The classification process based on freelance flags is brutal and biased.

123. Assessing Personal Career and Progress

Taking a pause from something that we do in order to keep track of something that is needed some attention is very important.

124. Explore How to Harness Delayed Gratification For a Mountain of Success

These are all qualities you would expect from a successful person, and they are.

125. The Secret to Finding Your Purpose Is to Stop Chasing It

Perspectives on Finding Your Purpose

126. Are You Getting The Right Feedback ?

Getting plenty of feedback that isn’t actionable is as bad as getting no feedback.

127. A Brief PSA for Programmers: On Managing Up

One of the things that all new managers who move from leading a team of engineers to leading managers have in common is, well, frustration.

128. My Year In Review – 2020 Edition

A look back over 2020 as an annual review to better look forward to 2021 by Mr Ashley Ball.

129. Leaders Don’t Just Solve Problems; They Make Them Too

One of the key things that makes leaders effective is the ability to orient themselves. Leaders make their own problems. This post shares how to do that.

130. Will 2020 Be The Year You Finally Quit Your Job?

Every year, every month, every day — I kept telling myself that I will, one day, follow my dreams. This is the story of how I finally took action and quit my job.

My job was just another regular corporate job at a decent company. However, I always felt that there was so much more I could do. The daily commutes, the pointless meetings, the high pressure projects drained my energy, my soul, my body and mostly, my mind. In addition to this, over the course of the last few years, I dealt with bullying, dealt with aggressive co-workers, with unrealistic deadlines, under-appreciation of hard work. I overcame each challenge and towards the end of 2019, I started seriously contemplating how I was living life.

131. The Key to a Good Relationship With Your Manager

What kind of relationship do you have with your manager? Is it a thriving one or are you barely surviving?

132. A Solution To Your Mental Health Worries: "Think Big" Towards Your Future and The Rest Will Follow

The ability to think big is the first step to break out of our bubble of self-imposed limits and to channel our energies to explore a bigger and better future.

133. Hacking Emotional Intelligence: The Key to Career Success

A look at how emotional intelligence as a conscious practice can be the missing key to your success.

134. My Dear Daughter: Ensure Your Freedom with Your “F*ck Off” Fund

Money does not bring happiness. Money buys freedom. Freedom to take a leave when you feel burned out. Freedom to leave a country. Freedom to own a house.

135. How to Optimize your GitHub Repository for Open Source Development

This article would give you tips to help prepare your GitHub repository for open-source contributions.

136. 5 Incredibly Simple Yet Useful Tips To Push Your Motivation Flywheel

How can I make motivation part of my life to do things that will help me achieve my goals in the long run? For me, motivation was a state of mind. Some days I was all excited and motivated to get to my toughest goals and important tasks that I had avoided in the past. Then there were other times I felt lost, unsure of how to make even tiny progress on things I got to do.

137. How I've Navigated a 30-Year Career in IT and Software Development

During Career Day in High School a teacher pointed out that only if you had advanced math skills could you be successful in Computer Programming.

138. Demystifying System Design Interviews

Approaching systems design interviews strategically is crucial, as they typically do not require any actual coding.

139. Be Dangerous! For The Dreamers of the Day are Dangerous Men

In Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel Dune, we follow the story of the fall and rise of the aristocratic Atreides family circa 22,000 CE. The principal character, the marquee of the family, Paul Atreides, goes on a unique hero’s journey of guerilla warfare and political maneuvering, with both cosmological and philosophical repercussions. Without giving too much away, a central plot in the novel is Paul discovering his own telos, “the full potential or inherent purpose” of himself, within his mind and his broader destiny. This mystery surrounding Paul’s purpose creates an underground current through most of the novel. And when the current bursts to the surface, the reader is only left to pondering a hypothetical divine mystery. Is the reader witnessing a transfiguration (see Mark 9:1–10) or a revelation (See Revelation 21:1), as this archetypical desert warlord develops into an enlightened desert mystic? Is Paul a mix tape of Moses meets T. E. Lawrence? Or is he experiencing the slow mental descent of an asylum-bound messiah?

140. "It's What You're Thinking. It's Not What You Have," — Focus.ceo Founder on Courage & Resilience

What if that one thing we sometimes take for granted is exactly what we need to focus on even more?

141. Shaping Tomorrow’s Product Teams: Noonies Nominee Timoté Geimer

Read the backstory behind Timoté Geimer's career and the growth of dualoop, a product management consulting firm.

142. Life’s Ultimate Hack is Embracing Your Inner Childlike Lunatic

Let's explore the scientific and psychological benefits of embracing our inner foolishness and why it's important to be a little bit silly every now and then.

143. Adrian H. Raudaschl is Ready to Live Somewhere Other Than Earth

Adrian H. Raudaschl from the United Kingdom is a 5x Noonie Nominee who, right now, is most excited about the prospect of "Living on worlds other than Earth." We feel that vibe. Read more of Adrian's insights in the 10-question interview below.

144. Focus on the Small Victories, Instead of Those Ambitious Goals

Do you celebrate big victories, audacious goals, and major milestones? You must. We all do. But, what happens after a big goal is met?

145. Goal Congruence and The Importance of Aligning With Who You Are

Goal Congruence: Align With Who You Are

146. A Redefinition of Strength: Reframe Your Flaws as Your Superpowers

“Trying their best.” [...] Feeling like they aren’t living up to their potential, dreading the journey that the internet told them they are supposed to enjoy.

147. How To Be Responsible For Your Own Growth

We all want to have a good relationship with our managers, work on impactful projects that help us advance our career, want to be highly regarded in our line of work and be trusted and respected by others. But, how often do we take charge of our own growth?

148. If You Want To Achieve A Goal Show Up Prepared

It is important to realize that we have the ability to manufacture our own fate when we want to. - Eric Haney, Delta Force operator

149. Forget To-do Lists. What About To-learn Lists?

We all have to-do lists. But what about a to-learn list?

A to-learn list is a way to keep track of everything you want to learn.

The beauty of a to-learn lis

150. The 13 Highest Paying Cities for Software Engineers in the U.S Midwest

Among the top 100 best-paying cities for software engineers in the U.S., 13 are in the Midwest, as reported by over 5 million verified professionals on Blind.

151. How To Find Work-Life Balance

Work-life balance is always a struggle at every stage of our life. How to make work-life balance work? By understanding that it isn't a state, but a journey.

152. How Leonardo da Vinci Became a Pioneer of Virtual Reality

The greatest message we can take from da Vinci’s life is maintaining a child-like wonder sense and noticing the unseen as we were to check Mona Lisa’s smile.

153. How Writing Can Help Developers Succeed

Recently I was listening to Jason Fried in the chase Jaris podcast, for you who doesn’t know Json Fried he is the chief executive officer of Basecamp...

154. A Guide to Career Promotions and the Peter Principle

Do we really consider promotion as an important decision of our life that requires careful evaluation aligned with our passions, interest levels and abilities? Is it even offered as a choice?

155. The Pros and Cons To Losing Yourself in a Problem

You find yourself fully committed to solving a problem, you think if I just do x then it's smooth sailings and it'll all be done. A couple hours pass and you've nailed x, but actually y and z seem pretty challenging, and now you have to fix x in order to make y and z as slick as possible.

156. 9 Questions Every Great Boss Should Answer

As a manager, without a system in place to measure yourself and actively monitor how you’re doing, you can't identify all the areas that you need to improve on.

157. Values: What They Are and Why They Are Important

Dr. John Demartini | The Implications of Knowing and Living Your Values

158. 5 Emotionally Intelligent Habits For Handling Frustrating Situations In The Workplace

By engaging in a growth mindset, you can move from complaining about frustration to finding a solution. You have the power to choose your mindset.

159. Effective Techniques Against Disinformation

We need to be aware of our news diet and critical thinking (being able to objectively follow news and change our minds if we come across relevant information).

160. How To Train Your Brain To Be More Optimistic

When faced with adversity, most people feel indecisive, restless, and anxious about the future. It is what happens afterward that makes a difference.

161. The 36 Highest Paying Cities for Management Consultants in the US

Here is everything you might want to know about what a management consultant does and how much someone can earn in the role.

162. Overthinking: Causes, Impact, Strategies for Taking Action

I thought I was pretty good and smart at making decisions from routine tasks with little cognitive load like what to eat for lunch, what dress to wear to the office, how to avoid traffic on the way to work to the more mentally demanding activities like putting together a hiring plan, defining org structure and thinking about the future strategy of my organisation.

163. How To Deal With Difficult People

Humans are social creatures who seek personal validation based on how others interact with them. We feel good and important when others share our belief system and dejected when there’s a conflict of opinions.

164. Driving Action Through the Power of 'Yet'

Saying “I can’t do” triggers a belief that she can never do it, it’s not within her reach. That makes her give up without trying hard enough.

165. 5 Tips for Breaking Into Cybersecurity with No Experience

If you're looking to break into the cybersecurity field, you may feel like you have your work cut out for you.

166. Staying Focussed And Removing Distractions - A How-To Guide

In a world that’s designed for interruptions, we are all vulnerable to distractions.

167. What Traits Distinguish An Awesome Programmer

What distinguishes great programmers from good ones?

168. The Trident Strategy: Using A Combination Of 2–3 Skills To Maximize Wealth

T-shaped skills are dead. The top 1% of high performers are using a secret strategy to build their Trident skillset and get ahead of the competition.

169. Self Awareness: The Key to Mental Health and Workplace Success

Self awareness may be the new key to both workplace success and mental health. Here's how self awareness training can improve productivity, empathy, diversity.

170. Letting Go And Owning Up: Strategies For Learning From Mistakes

We are programmed at an early age to think that mistakes are bad. Don’t make a mistake, you won’t get good grades. Choose the right career, there’s no going back. Make up your mind, there won’t be a second chance. You will regret this decision later. What were you really thinking? All this well-meaning advice rings loud and clear in our heads, conveying a simple message - stay away from mistakes.

171. How to Plan Like a Pro: Part 1 of 2

The first part of an educational blog covering general planning. This specifically focuses on the why's of planning.

172. Open Ended Questions to Ask to Go From Giving Advice To Gaining Insight

Have you noticed what happens when someone asks you a really good open ended question? Your mood shifts and body language changes as your mind sets on a quest to look within, think deeply, and churn out ideas. The endorphin rush that comes from exploring uncharted territories triggers a positive feeling in the body.

173. 50 Highest-Paying Cities in the United States for Product Managers in 2022

Product management is a crucial skill in demand at many large tech companies. As such this list reflects some of the more lucrative packages available.

174. How to Identify and Stick it to Decision Fatigue

A series of these small decisions scattered throughout our day may seem harmless in the moment, but are they really harmless?

175. Mastering Workplace Communication: 4 Body Language Mistakes and How to Fix Them

We speak more through our bodies than our words. The posture we assume, expression on our face, hand gestures and our eye movement conveys far more than we would like to expose.

176. Passion is the Answer to Loving Your Work

177. Meet the Twins That Are Launching the First Comic-Based Learning Experience on the Market

Twins are launching the first comic-based learning experience on the market - Improvement Comics - Learn key ideas about self-improvement via weekly comics.

178. Shine at Work: 8 Tips to Get Noticed

What matters is how you operate, how you interact with others, or how you look beyond the outcomes to generate value.

179. Entrepreneurship Class Secrets: Safety Nets, Shortcuts, and The Five

Finding success in entrepreneurship is hard. I would know. I have spent many years talking about, or being involved in, entrepreneurship. I started a UK-based fashion business six years ago, and that all-encompassing dumpster fire makes up most of what I know today about marketing, e-commerce, branding, and how no one will buy your stuff if you just do things the way they’ve always been done.

180. Upgrade Your Note-taking With Roam Research

“Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is the practice of capturing the ideas and insights we encounter in our daily life, whether from personal experience, from books and articles, or from our work, and cultivating them over time to produce more creative, higher quality work.”

181. Cultivating Healthy Workplace Culture: Listen. Decide. Act. Repeat

Your employees’ relationships with their work environment are just as meaningful as their home environment when it comes to mental health.

182. Beat the Curse of Knowledge by Explaining "Why"

I once watched an intern deftly answer an offhand question faster and more thoroughly than a room full of big shots and tech veterans.

183. 5 Strategies for Shifting a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset

How do you approach failures in life?

184. 8 Things a Co-founder Can Start Doing When Others Are Busy With Product Development

Find out what you need to do as a co-founder during product development when you have little to do but still need to contribute to the success of the startup.

185. The Code Is the Documentation; a Paradox That Rings True

The first time I heard someone say: “the code is the documentation”, I thought it sounded completely wrong, like a lazy excuse for not producing documentation.

186. How I Overcame Imposter Syndrome While at Meta

My experience with Imposter Syndrome at Meta and how I overcame it

187. Here's What It Takes to Become a LinkedIn Influencer in 2022

Being a public figure on LinkedIn increases the engagement on your LinkedIn posts and engages a more relevant audience for you to network with.

188. 8 Steps to Build Your Technical Staff's People Skills to Avoid Cyberattacks

As an industry, we need to work together more effectively, communicate clearly, and solve problems with less conflict. In short, we need stronger people skills.

189. Technical Writing, Leadership and Management

Management and leadership in technical writing should not be either/or, and requires new perspectives on roles, hierarchy, vision and goals.

190. Get Beyond Small Talk To Forming Meaningful Connections At Work

Striking up a conversation at work can be intimidating. We avoid eye contact, turn our heads away and pretend to be busy on our phones all in an attempt to save ourselves from the awkward moment of meeting someone and not sure what to say.

191. This Is How Self-Integrity Can Change Your Life

Self-Integrity Can Change Your Life

192. A Disney Animator’s Tips on How to Live a Life of Awesome

Saul Blinkoff | Be Sincere: How to Live a Life of Awesome

193. What is the Fear Response and How Does it Work?

Fear Is Your Signal To Thrive

194. "Worry Later. Try First," says Product Designer Agnieszka Zimolag

“In these unprecedented times…” The Humans of Hacker Noon design unprecedented products, and contribute to the internet in unprecedented ways. One such human is Agnieszka Zimolag from the US - interviewed here following a 2020 Noonie Nomination for contributions to the subject of Product Design.

195. How to Cultivate Growth Mindset in the Workplace

I have worked with two different kinds of leaders and managers over the years. The one who believes in fixed abilities and promotes a fixed mindset “those who don’t perform well can never do better” and the other who believes in growing those abilities thereby promoting a growth mindset “people can be coached into improving their skills.”

196. How to Get a Recruiter to Work Harder for You

Here’s the secret to getting a recruiter to work harder for you.

197. Get More Speaking Engagements By Building Your Personal Brand - Here's How

This article is for all my friends and acquaintances, co-workers and aspiring product managers, mentees and anyone else who has ever asked me —

198. How to Maximize What You Love by Minimizing What You Hate

Last year I posted an article about how to find the things that you love. This year I collected more metrics and I learned how to make my day better.

199. 3 Things Coding And Prose Writing Have In Common According To Cory House

Does your code read like a book?

200. How To Deal With A Micromanager The Right Way

Organisations spend a huge amount of time and resources to hire smart, talented and self-motivated individuals who show a strong passion and commitment towards their own growth and success of the organisation.

201. What Do You Think Your Values Are?

Do You Know What Your Values Are?

202. Asking for Help the Right Way

When we were small, we asked for help all the time. Dependent on our parents, friends, teachers and siblings to help us navigate the complexities of life, asking for help seemed like the most natural thing to do. As a child, I don’t remember dealing with any painful emotion while asking for help, worrying about what it would do to my self-esteem or the damaging effect on the image I have built for myself. I was happy to learn from everyone around me, knowing I could rely on people to give me useful advice when I needed one. Indeed, the best feeling in the world.

203. When an Employee's Pet Passes, Give Them Time and Space to Grieve

People who know my co-founder (and wife) Rena and me or who follow our cats and dogs on Instagram know we have a Gaffigan-esque number of four-legged family members.

204. Your Old Employer Might be Your Best Bet for a New Job

The coworker that just left the company may be back, and they might return sooner than expected.

205. How Saying the Word NO Can Change Your Business Forever

When many keen entrepreneurs start out on the path to growing their business, they are often guilty of making one huge mistake more than any other. Unfortunately, because this error is so ingrained in our very being, it’s not something that we recognize straight away, which means it happens over and over again.

206. “When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself”. ― Earl Nightingale

Think of the countless times you labeled someone at work as “lazy, boring, incompetent, stupid, irritating, biased, reckless, rude…”

207. Leadership Lessons by Disney Chairman Robert Iger

Robert Iger, now Executive Chairman of The Walt Disney Company is the former CEO of Disney. During his 15 years as CEO of Disney and as President of ABC Television prior to that, he led the company to amazing new heights. Under his leadership, Disney’s market capitalization increased from $48 billion to $257 billion. He oversaw the acquisition of Pixar in 2006, Marvel entertainment in 2009 and many more after that. He is the perfect exemplar of a leader who has proved himself over an extended period of time.

208. Asynchronous Communications Can Help Reclaim Lost Time

Have you ever felt like having done nothing after a full day of work? Do you find yourself going away from the office so you can finally get things done? Good news: you’re not alone. Bad news: this may be linked to how you communicate at work!

209. Green Lights at the End of a Dock: The Secret to Happiness by Jay Gatsby and Richard Curtis

My first experience with time travel was when I was 21 years old.

210. Conflict Management: How to Engage in Rethinking Cycle

An argument with a coworker - conflict of opinion. Working on a project that doesn’t energize you - conflict of interest. Didn’t get the promotion - conflict of growth. Working super hard with no time for personal life - internal conflict. Saying yes to work that doesn’t align with your goals - conflict of priorities. Committed a mistake, but can’t come to terms with accepting responsibility - conflict of values. We don’t realize it, but most interactions at work lead to a major or minor conflict.

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