Matt McCormick

Are you passing up opportunities?

September 13, 2011 ·1

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. The year was 1995. I was 14 years old and recently purchased a screaming fast 14.4 Kbps modem and signed up with a local ISP to finally get graphical Internet. This was the Internet with pictures! Ah, how I remember the days [...]

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Advice for New Software Developers

June 1, 2011 ·0

When starting a new path, it is often difficult to know which way to go. Some good advice I once received is that when people are starting something new, they need to be told exactly what and how to do it. It is only once they have a bit of experience that you can remove [...]

Learn Quickly: How to Soak up things like a Sponge

August 7, 2010 ·0

All my life I’ve been able to pick up things very quickly. This has led me to being bored with classes at times since they need to go at the pace of the average learner. I still remember taking Math class in high school. One year my teacher would assign the homework due for tomorrow [...]

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You, Inc.

December 14, 2009 ·0

Are you an employee who dreams of starting your own business? You have an idea that excites you when thinking about it. You visualise the finished product coming to life. You imagine all the money rolling in from sales. That is great but it could be months or years down the road. Do you really [...]

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Read Books, Not Blogs

December 3, 2009 ·0

“Spend 15 minutes per day reading about your craft and within 5 years you will be in the top 5% of your industry.” I read this quote a couple years ago and have tried to live by it since to see if it is accurate.  I wouldn’t consider myself in the top 5% so it [...]

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