53. Habits of Successful Developers.

Who are the best software developers?

What makes them the best? What makes them successful? 

How can we measure their contribution and their impact? Do we look at the amount of time they spend coding? Or the impact on business? How do we measure “impact on the business”?

These are some of the great questions Jacob Crockett had in mind when he co-founded Perspect, a platform designed to reward developers for the impact they make, not just lines of code.

Jacob does not like the buzzword bingo, but he knows Perspect would do just fine in such a game. See for yourself: Perspect is writing developers contributions on chain (blockchain) & using machine learning to identify and recommend ways to improve (AI).

I had an amazing conversation with Jacob. He is a thoughtful leader, with a very clear vision of what he wants to achieve. He is passionate about data, and using data to improve the profession of software developers, to help them find more valuable flow time, deep work that will bring the best results.

Besides talking about measuring what matters, and helping developers find their best version, we contrasted perception (we did a few polls) with reality. For example: How many hours do developers spend actually coding on a daily basis? 

Few people got this one right… 

Listen, learn, and enjoy. We all have a long way to go to focus on the right things to get the best results possible, and we can all start by knowing how we really use our time.