I've used [horizon planning]({% post_url 2023-11-20-example-of-horizon-planning %}) for years now, but I only recently discovered that folks like McKinsey do something similar. Horizon planning focuses on strategic goals along distant points called h...

It winds up for almost everyone that you’ll have more than one job in your career. This is especially true in software development. For myself, I changed jobs nearly every single year! The shortest time I was at a company was five months, and the lon...

Earlier today, I was in a conversation with Jabe Bloom about architecture. In my slowness to figure out what we were talking about, I thought we were talking about something else entirely. Jabe recently posted an image to twitter about architecture,...

“It’s a six-figure piece of paper,” is what one of my clients said about their resume not too long ago. They started their career from scratch within the past three years and never used a portfolio to get their jobs. If you’re ready to get back weeks...

So the big craze right now is, “Tidying Up.” The show is based on watching people go through the, “KonMari,” process that Marie Kondo created. Over a year ago, I picked up a copy and read it. I loved its direct nature and it’s lightness at the same t...

It happens all too often that I’m working with teams that need to pick up a new set of tools while under delivery pressure. Often companies lean on phrases like, “We hired smart people,” as a way to excuse an absence of any support for the team to le...

One of the interviewing techniques I work on the most is something I call "Details and Options." I'm going to break down the basics here so that you can incorporate it into your own interview preparations. Why Another Interview Technique? I'm so gla...

At some point, you’ll get a message from an external recruiter. Maybe it’ll be clever and have some Star Wars reference because all technical folk love Star Wars apparently. It might also be full of misspellings and so off-mark that you wonder why th...

Ever been in a retrospective, and in the end, there was an action item that nobody followed through on? Or have you been in a meeting where everyone is lobbying for their idea with no end in sight? Or maybe you’ve been confronted with a puzzle and w...

In my last years of college, I took a lot of history classes, and I wound up loving them. So much so that I thought I should have pursued a minor. While this doesn't make me an expert, I learned some things that stick out to me, and there is one I'm...