4 Simple Tips to Better Communication for devs. (or how to avoid conflict, confusion, and talk to people).

4 Simple Tips to Better Communication for devs. (or how to avoid conflict, confusion, and talk to people).

If I were to look back over my last decade in the tech world and pick one thing as my single best decision as a developer – I’d say choosing to study psychology rather than computer science. The most significant impact studying psychology had was on my communication skills, which, as a developer, put me…

On Kindness

On Kindness

Contemplation of ‘Why?’ we learn, adhere to, and behave in certain ways has always intrigued me – one such question is: “Why do we find it necessary to be kind?” One of the many tediously bland, and reasonless, lessons we are taught by adults when we are kids is the importance of having manners, using…

In Praise of Melancholy

In Praise of Melancholy

As a species and a society, we have grown to over romanticize and popularize happiness and have exiled all feelings of the contrary to the unpopular and unwanted crevices of human emotion. We strive only to increase those things that make us happy or that bring happiness to us, and at the slightest surfacing of…

Poem: Already gone.

Poem: Already gone.

(This is a poem about the thoughts & feelings that so many suffer with daily.) “He fought so hard“, people would say. And he did, he did, until he didn’t. Gone, long before his heart stopped beating. In a moment living merely became the passing of time. He was defeated by the long hard struggle of…

My Talk on Mental Wellness at WordCamp Cape Town 2016

My Talk on Mental Wellness at WordCamp Cape Town 2016

At WordCamp Cape Town this year, I gave talk on Mental Wellness, the WordPress Community, and You. An unusual talk for a tech conference, but one which needed to be spoken about – and I had no idea how it would go down. Watch on WordPress.tv https://twitter.com/maxbarners/status/774164897810657280 Summary: The main point of this talk was…

Dear Mothers

Dear Mothers, Please forgive us children who do not understand That You offer only a helping hand. A hand that has the strength to hold up the sky and we reject you and we make you cry… Please forgive us… I have seen the love of mothers, of all mothers with a love unmatched, unfathomable,…

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