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You are right that you can only await in an async function, but you can call an async function anywhere and get back a Promise. await-ing that promise is often what you want to do …

I think people miss the wait part of await and hence forget they can separate the creation and consumption of a promise. Should have been called waitFor!

That is a perfect analogy!

Growth Mindset might be a bit of a wooly term but that tends to be what I look for. I want people who continually get better. There are lots of resources on specific things you can…

Thanks for sharing - and that article is really interesting. Being "good at hiring" -- and hence having better people -- is such an advantage for an organisation, it always surpris…

Thank you. Sleeping on it, and writing this post, has definitely bought things back into perspective: we can all have off days. It had been a while since I'd had this sort of negat…

Like lots of people at the moment I found myself back on the job market. Things have been going well, but an interview yesterday included a (virtual equivalent) whiteboard coding e…

This was really interesting — can anyone offer a recommendation for a book on the history of these types of schemes? I imagine there’s all sorts of entertaining stories.

Practically, de Bono’s six thinking hats exercise is really useful. You might naturally dwell on black hat thinking - the exercise forces you to look at ideas in a different way. h…