Blog — Aspiration and Advisory

Knowledge and Confidence

Why people who know a lot are always confident, but not vice versa? What are the primary sources of knowledge? How to build a foundation for confidence? The following article answers these and some related questions.

Why People Make Mistakes

It may look like a straightforward question, but in fact, it is not. There are tons of factors that may lead to mistakes, and most people never think or try to avoid them. The following article categorizes these factors and sources and quickly explains why it happens.

Communication, BusinessYevhen ShyshkinAugust 25, 2021people, mistake, knowledge, experience, conference, human, factor, internal, external, category, explanationComment

Fix Issues Every Day

Not many developers are genuinely passionate about the quality of their code. However, the ones that do care about it use many interesting best practices. Today I would like to share one of such best practices.

Business, TechnicalYevhen ShyshkinAugust 18, 2021issue, fix, quality, time, technical, business, management, thinking, simple, customer, satisfaction, productComment

Teach Your Customers

There is a common mistake many software companies make. They forget to explain to their customer how to use their products and why they have to use them. The following article describes how to solve this issue and shares best practices.

BusinessYevhen ShyshkinJuly 7, 2021teaching, customer, support, general, way, content, notification, personal, trainings, discovery, preparation, training, success, futureComment

Smart and Rich

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? It is a common question people ask when some intelligent person does not earn enough money or can not find a good job. There are many reasons, and the following article describes my personal top three.

Communication, BusinessYevhen ShyshkinJune 30, 2021smart, rich, motivation, money, finances, environment, factor, external, internal, growth, knowledge, skill, solution, luck, risk, goalComment

Professional Interpersonal Relations

Every big project is built by a big team. The main principle that allows a big group to make a big project is working together as a team, not as many individual workers. One of the essential aspects of teamwork is interpersonal relations, defined mainly by soft skills and communication. This article explains why such professional relations are crucial and how to maintain them.

Goals, Ways, and Results

There is a common complaint I hear a lot from people: “I have tried to do something, but failed and gave up.“ These people usually have a vague definition of what they wanted to achieve, how to do it, and what to do with consequences. I call these three phases Goals, Ways, and Results. Let us check what difficulties a person can face during each of these phases and overcome them.

BusinessYevhen ShyshkinJune 2, 2021goal, way, result, what, how, vision, definition, plan, planning, alternatives, consequence, positive, negative, iteration, processComment

Degree In Computer Science: Is It Worth It?

Pretty much every big and serious company has a degree in computer science as a requirement for software engineers. However, many candidates consider it unnecessary, and they have pretty good arguments. So, let us check when such a degree indeed is required and when it is not.

From Chaos To Order

Project management is an organizational process of many external and internal activities to complete specific scope of work called the project. It is a common situation when the project is started in chaos with no understanding of requirements, the scope of work, or who participates in the project. Let us see how to organize that chaos.