Happy Friday,I'm about to go on a week-long road trip for Thanksgiving to visit family. I hate driving, so the 32 hours of driving are the inspiration for this little email.Surgeons are generally regarded as smart and professional, despite shows like...
Happy Friday!Here we go again with another "very serious" survey of development techniques that people definitely understand and use well.10)Test-Driven DevelopmentA technique that a few people claim works wonders for stability and design, but nobody...
Happy Friday!Look, I know everyone is probably pretty tired of all the AI talk, but I wanted to share my impressions of using Claude Code for a day on my reko.day app. There are still many things for me to learn about how to use Claude effectively, b...
Happy Halloween!I showed my kids the Addam's Family movies from the 90s for the first time this week. They loved it and asked why they're so weird. I told them that they were sort of meant to be a parody of the American family by being total opposite...
Happy Friday,Last night I took my kids to the nearby theme park for their fall festival. "On a school night?" Stop shouting! Sure, we could have gone this weekend with everyone, but this way, there were no lines for any rides or anything the kids wan...
Happy Friday!I've been working with a lot of folks wanting a new job lately. I've always had a soft spot for helping out folks with what I term a "soul-crushing" experience, and I happen to have an odd talent for navigating the whole interview and ne...
Happy Friday!I like to think that I'm a creative problem solver. One of those folks who thinks outside the box. I bet I'm not alone thinking that. Something strange happens, though, when I'm at clients and someone mentions getting creative or brainst...
Happy Friday!I was thinking about some conversations I've had with leaders over the years where they've asked how to get their folks to try something new or look beyond their roles. This is a question with a lot of nuance in the answer, so let me bri...
Happy Friday,Recently, I've signed up on some sites that will hopefully let me get back into one of my favorite pastimes, playing TTRPGS (think Dungeons and Dragons). Anyway, I was signing up for a site, and they had an application process that I tho...
Happy Friday!There are so many things we let ourselves believe about our jobs and careers. Some of it is because of what we were taught by our parents and previous generations, some is what our employers teach, and some is just hope.But here's the tr...