Let’s imagine your development department is the Facebook development department. You started this cool site in PHP in your college dorm, and it became big. Scratch that, it became huge.

So your poor developers have had to take your PHP code and make it scale to enourmous proportions. But we all know you can’t do everything at once. You pick something and you work on it.

Google is one of my primary tools when screening candidates for a position. While a resume and cover letter are useful in telling me what an applicant wants me to know, Google will tell me about who they are when they’re not applying for a job.

Watch Matthew Childs’ TED Talk on 9 live lessons from Rock Climbing. The take-home is left to you.
1. Don’t let go
2. Hesitation is bad.
3. Have a plan.
4. You have to be able to complete each individual move.
5. Know how to rest.
6. Fear really sucks because what it means is you’re not focusing on what you’re doing.
7. Don’t take it straight on. Don’t follow the most obvious solution.
8. Strength doesn’t always equal success.
9. Plan for a fall. Once you get to that point where you know it’s going to happen, you need to start thinking about how you’re going to let go.