
5 Career Roadblocks Every Software Professional Must Face
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- 🚧 5 hidden roadblocks that derail growth
- 🧠 Actionable solutions from real-world mentoring
- 💡 Designed to shift your mindset and unlock clarity
- 👨💻 Ideal for developers, architects, and team leads

Negotiation for Software Professionals
Short but intense mini-course from M. Joel—distilling 30 years of negotiation wisdom.
- 🎯 Focused training built for software roles
- 🎥 Includes video lesson, slides, and handout
- 🧰 Real-world strategies you can apply immediately
- 💼 For devs, managers, and technical leaders
Bonus: includes a salary negotiation masterclass
Format: Video download with slides & handouts *ON SALE* – click to see price
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Report: Building a Production Library with AI
Ship smarter, not slower. This technical report takes you behind the scenes of building a production-quality software library using AI—step by step, from idea to shipping code.
What’s Inside:
- ✅ 26 pages of expert-level walkthroughs and analysis
- 🧠 Every prompt, every response — annotated in detail
- 📦 Includes a downloadable ZIP of 20 source files including revisions (2500+ lines of code)
- 🔍 Shows exact steps to get high-quality, production-ready code from AI tools
- 🌐 Language-agnostic insights (usable in any programming environment)
Format: PDF (26 pages) + ZIP download of source code with version history
Recommended for: Professional software engineers, staff-level developers, and architects
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Creativity Gym: 30-Day Creativity Workout Challenge
Unleash your inventive potential. In a future where AI can build anything, creativity becomes your unfair advantage. This focused mini-course helps you unlock levels of creativity you didn’t know you had.
What’s Included:
- 🧠 30-day creativity workout challenge
- 📘 10-page PDF mini-course
- 🔥 Exercises designed to strengthen your imagination and idea generation
- 💡 Tailored for software professionals who build, design, or lead
Format: PDF Workbook (10 pages) $49 SALE $29

Curiosity Gym: 30-Day Curiosity Workout Challenge
Curiosity is a superpower—especially in the age of AI. The Curiosity Gym isn’t just about asking more questions. It’s about making inquiry a habit, embracing uncertainty, and transforming the way you think.
Everyone is born curious. As children, we question everything. But over time, curiosity often gets muted by structure, schooling, or simple lack of time. This mini-course helps you reconnect with that innate drive—to explore, wonder, and grow for the future.
What’s Included:
- 🔎 30-day curiosity workout challenge
- 📘 10-page printable PDF
- 🌀 Exercises to reawaken your sense of wonder and mental flexibility
- 💡 Designed for all information workers who thrive on exploration
Format: PDF (Printable, 10 pages) $49 SALE $29

Workbook: Continuous Improvement for Software Leaders
Apply continuous improvement to yourself. This 122-page workbook guides software professionals through improving performance, perspective, and purpose—on the job and beyond.
What You’ll Get:
- 📝 122 page typeset workbook with guided exercises and expert framing
- 📚 Updated edition — revised specifically for software professionals
- 🔍 Copious space for personal notes and reflections
- 📘 Professionally formatted for 5×7 bound printing (compatible with standard letter-size printing)
- 💡 Designed for individual growth in leadership, clarity, and performance
Format: PDF Workbook (Printable) $49
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