Iris Classon has been developing (.NET) for about 4 years. She's shared her story along the way; the ups, the downs, etc.
She is followed by many; this kinda came out of nowhere, and as a follower it's very horrible to see her obviously broken right now.
It seems she's sick, and claims that pluralsight.com just pulled the plug on a project that would give her a notable size of money, which she was planning to use to get better.
I'm very confused by this, and something doesn't add up.
The premise of the article seems to be that the author is not doing well physically, and that has had a cascading effect on her work and personal life.
Except she won't tell us what's wrong. As someone whose twitter headline reads "The world’s happiest .NET developer & Microsoft C# MVP! More energy than a 5 year old" - I find these statements to conflict with each other.
If you're sick - you should tell your boss/clients/board/whomever you report to. Especially if it's serious. I get the impression she's been bottling it up for a while. Well, if I think, as your boss, you're the happiest dev ever with tons of energy, and then all of the sudden you aren't, I'm going to be very shocked, confused, and lied to / disappointed. I'm sorry, but that's on her. If she's been hiding it in such a way as her Twitter profile, that's a great disservice to her and to her superiors.
The question now is whether or not she has been actually sick for a while, talked with her employers, and they haven't helped her - that's something worth blogging about for mistreating their employees. But we don't know - there's two sides to a story, and even this one side is incredibly cryptic.
If you want to reach to a particular audience, perhaps email is a better outlet. Without a clear message, or even a clear problem, I'm not so sure a blog is really going to help you at all.
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It seems she's sick, and claims that pluralsight.com just pulled the plug on a project that would give her a notable size of money, which she was planning to use to get better.
The premise of the article seems to be that the author is not doing well physically, and that has had a cascading effect on her work and personal life.
Except she won't tell us what's wrong. As someone whose twitter headline reads "The world’s happiest .NET developer & Microsoft C# MVP! More energy than a 5 year old" - I find these statements to conflict with each other.
If you're sick - you should tell your boss/clients/board/whomever you report to. Especially if it's serious. I get the impression she's been bottling it up for a while. Well, if I think, as your boss, you're the happiest dev ever with tons of energy, and then all of the sudden you aren't, I'm going to be very shocked, confused, and lied to / disappointed. I'm sorry, but that's on her. If she's been hiding it in such a way as her Twitter profile, that's a great disservice to her and to her superiors.
The question now is whether or not she has been actually sick for a while, talked with her employers, and they haven't helped her - that's something worth blogging about for mistreating their employees. But we don't know - there's two sides to a story, and even this one side is incredibly cryptic.
If you want to reach to a particular audience, perhaps email is a better outlet. Without a clear message, or even a clear problem, I'm not so sure a blog is really going to help you at all.