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Solo vs Team

What's your work situation: solo, small team, or large team? What are the pros and cons of each? Do you feel you're missing out? If you have experience in more than one, which did you prefer?

In a large organisation, are there places for solo developers? In small companies, how can a developer be part of a larger community?

Does your personality type determine where you end up in your career, or is this controlled by the industry you're in?

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

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What If... You didn't become a software developer?

Think back to that one point in your life that put you on the path to being a software developer and now take an alternative path. Aside from your career how else would your life be different? Would the company(s) you worked for be better, worse, or the same? Would you live somewhere else? Different hobbies? Different friends and/or spouse(s)? What else do you think would be different or the same?

Inspired by me going to visit relatives and wondering how my life would be different if we hadn't moved to Edmonton when I was a kid. Also by the popular Marvel comics and TV show.

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

P.S. - The featured image was created with ChatGPT where i asked it to create image similar to the Marvel What If? covers.

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Collaboration Overload

Are you overwhelmed by all the communication channels you have to monitor every day? Teams, Slack, email, SMS, Discord, WhatsApp…

Is this cutting into your productivity, your concentration, and your joy of using computers and writing software?

What strategies do you use to manage all these channels? Do you turn off notifications? Block certain times of day to read and respond? Come share your woes and wisdom!

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

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