Brandon is a versatile and passionate engineer that uses design thinking
and web technologies for creative problem-solving. He is currently working as
the Director of Software at SXSW and teaching Web Design at FIDM.
A year ago today, I officially started a career in management. I accepted a role as the Head of Software at South by Southwest (SXSW), a company I have worked with for the past several years. It was a tremendous accomplishment for me, and something I had joked about in years prior, so to have it come to be felt extremely rewarding. That being said, I didn’t know what a...
Aligning logic refers to the process by which I complete a task, get feedback from my colleagues or supervisor, then incorporate that feedback into the original task. The time it takes to successfully complete this loop will shrink over time as I learn to anticipate my colleague’s feedback and generally get better at the process.
I watched Mark Yegge’s TEDxUF Talk called Executing Your Ideas for graduate school. In the video, he talks about the importance of sharing your ideas. Mark Yegge said: “If you’re not going to tell anyone your idea, then there is no way you can ever really implement it.”