Howard Schultz Leadership Lessons + more
Hey everyone,
Here are a few things I wanted to share with you this week:
How an Outsider Transformed Starbucks From 5 Stores Into a Global Empire:
As a young boy, Howard Schultz had never imagined that he would one day build a company of his own, let alone a company that would have over 30,000 stores in more than 80 countries and employs over 350,000 people.
In his plan to expand globally, he has faced many tough challenges. In this post, more details about his journey and valuable leadership lessons from it.
5 Rules for Thought-Provoking Content:
In order for content to trigger you, it should challenge your view, sharpen your critical thinking skills, or invite you to clarify your thought processes. In this post, I'll break down some common techniques to do this - along with many examples - that you can apply to grab your audience's attention and trigger some psychological or emotional response in them.
3 Principles to Shift Your Mindset toward Achieving Goals:
Achieving our goals is an endeavor that involves our mind and spirit as much as our technical skills. Here are 3 principles that help to have the mental toughness required for success.
How a Bug Helped Me to Have a Better Understanding of GraphQL:
About a week ago, I've noticed a bug on Medium when I click on the “Respond” button after writing a comment for an article. Coming across that bug, filled me with excitement that pushed me to press F12 and start checking the output on Chrome DevTools.
Here is what I learned from it and how you can use your curiosity and Chrome DevTools to learn more about web development.
8 Tools To Improve Developer Experience:
if (developer.happy == true) { jobTask.enjoy(); jobGoal.achieve(); }
Unlike User Experience (UX) — which is a familiar term that describes the experience of users while using an application, the term Developer Experience (DX) is less popular and a secondary priority in many organizations. In this article, we’ll tackle the concept of developer experience, and see how we can improve it.
The New Features and Breaking Changes in TypeScript 4.4:
August 24th, 2021, was the date of the new release of Microsoft’s typed JavaScript. There are some exciting features in this version, like expanding access to index signatures and improvement of the control flow analysis for type assignment.
If you haven’t yet got your feet wet in TypeScript 4.4, here is a walkthrough of the new features and breaking changes in the new version.
cheers,
Rakia