Get a card?

Did you get a "questions for reflection" card from me or see a question posted online?

I'm Leaf, and I'm writing a book about the human side of being a developer. You can read more of my writing here.

Two business cards and a small round sticker. One card says 'Beyond Writing Code Questions for reflection' and 'In what ways might slowing down actually help us to move faster?' The other card has a watercolor and ink drawing of a creature with a thought balloon that just has a question mark. The sticker has the same watercolor creature and the text 'Beyond Writing Code' and 'beyondwritingcode.com' around it.

The questions on the cards are all potential questions for reflection in the book! Get draft content, hear about book progress, and have the opportunity to have input into the book by signing up below:

After you confirm, hit reply on the confirmation email and tell me what question you drew. Share your thoughts if you like!

About the cards

In preparation for meeting a whole bunch of people at LeadDev StaffPlus and the Grace Hopper Celebration , I wanted something fun to hand out.

Stickers, for sure. I love stickers. That was easy.

But when I saw Ben Lloyd Pearson handing out "affirmations" at the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit , I knew he was onto something.

He offered people a deck of small cards, and I chose "Delete the code you don't want to see in the world" from the deck. Clever!

I considered being a copycat, but I was struggling to come up with more than about three affirmations. Once I decided to make it "questions for reflection" instead, well… I thought of 50 pretty quickly, enough to make a full set.

And then I thought of another 50.

I ordered two versions: business card size, and sticker size. I used this moo.com referral link if you are interested in checking out their products!

The full list of questions

Want to see all the questions? Here's a PDF with all of them! Use them for reflection, journaling, or conversation starters.