I have the same problem, I can't justifiy paying €120/year for spotify premium, because I should listen
to my own collection.
Of course, if you just want to check out songs, the free, ad-financed version of Spotify should do fine.
You can google open.spotify for links of albums you want to check out and then play them in full,
with 2-3 ads in between.
I'm enjoying it while I write this: I'm checking out a few albums of a band I'll see live in two weeks...
I'm closer to senior citizenship and get more news from Facebook than TV. Basically because I nowadays turn on the TV very rarely for live events (like the current football championship, the eurovision song contest or election results like the UK leaving Europe next week) and it stays off otherwise. If my current satellite TV system breaks down it will not get replaced, the usage doesn't justify keeping it. If I had to pay for TV beyond the TV license fee, it'd be gone already.
So it doesn't suprise me that young people no longer care for TV as a news source or an anything source.
It rarely covers important issues anyway.
Of course I get most of my news from news web sites and blogs nowadays...
This book How to Win Friends & Influence People was probably the best I read during my short, short, short (1 semester) of taking MBA classes, that will help you understand influencing people.
I second that suggestion (as somebody who finished his studies & has worked as a dev for nearly 20 years).
Regarding my career & personal life I consider this book to be the most important one I ever read.
Hire a component product manager. It's not the job of developers to prioritize customer feature requests. If your developers are refusing to implement the prioritization coming from the product organization it's time to start firing people. This sounds like amateur hour.
The focus is on competent.
If you hire an incompetent product manager, you may just find out that the few competent developers, who keep your old application running, decide to leave. This problem just occurs at my future ex-company...
Also, regarding your amateur hour insult, many smaller companies have personal and financial budgets that only allow for
amateur quality software develpoment. To change that you need to spend serious money upfront.
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I have the same problem, I can't justifiy paying €120/year for spotify premium, because I should listen to my own collection. Of course, if you just want to check out songs, the free, ad-financed version of Spotify should do fine. You can google open.spotify for links of albums you want to check out and then play them in full, with 2-3 ads in between. I'm enjoying it while I write this: I'm checking out a few albums of a band I'll see live in two weeks...
I'm closer to senior citizenship and get more news from Facebook than TV. Basically because I nowadays turn on the TV very rarely for live events (like the current football championship, the eurovision song contest or election results like the UK leaving Europe next week) and it stays off otherwise. If my current satellite TV system breaks down it will not get replaced, the usage doesn't justify keeping it. If I had to pay for TV beyond the TV license fee, it'd be gone already. So it doesn't suprise me that young people no longer care for TV as a news source or an anything source. It rarely covers important issues anyway. Of course I get most of my news from news web sites and blogs nowadays...
This book How to Win Friends & Influence People was probably the best I read during my short, short, short (1 semester) of taking MBA classes, that will help you understand influencing people.
I second that suggestion (as somebody who finished his studies & has worked as a dev for nearly 20 years).
Regarding my career & personal life I consider this book to be the most important one I ever read.
Hire a component product manager. It's not the job of developers to prioritize customer feature requests. If your developers are refusing to implement the prioritization coming from the product organization it's time to start firing people. This sounds like amateur hour.
The focus is on competent. If you hire an incompetent product manager, you may just find out that the few competent developers, who keep your old application running, decide to leave. This problem just occurs at my future ex-company...
Also, regarding your amateur hour insult, many smaller companies have personal and financial budgets that only allow for amateur quality software develpoment. To change that you need to spend serious money upfront.