Happy Friday!I've started applying to podcasts to speak at. If you know of any that focus on engineering leadership, I'd love to know what your favorites are. Similarly, if there are newsletters you subscribe to, let me know.One of the topics I'm pit...

Happy Friday!At the bottom of this little email, I have a YouTube short of my bees collecting pollen from earlier this week.Let's talk about everyone's favorite subject that absolutely doesn't induce eye-rolling or fatigue: Transformation.Transformat...

Happy Friday!Some of you might remember my email from November where I shared my first impressions of using Claude Code. The short version was that it felt like a highly educated developer at their first job who kept breaking the project file and cou...

Happy Friday!If you haven't kept up with my site, I've made a lot of changes recently. I've written a few articles and started something a little bit ambitious.I started putting together something kind of like guides that represent my knowledge and s...

Happy Friday!Yesterday, someone who almost never posts on LinkedIn posted an article from the CEO of a consultancy that a bunch of their former co-workers wound up in.The article was about transformation fatigue, and how lame consultants are part of...

Happy Friday!This email is a bit different. I'm blending two groups, my consultant and reko.day groups.Let me first play a little catch-up in case you're saying, "What's reko.day?"reko.day is a start-up that I've created. It is an app that lets farme...

Happy Friday!I'm going to share my thoughts on a book I read a while ago called Profit First."Whoa, you read books? How many pictures do they have?"Well, they're business books, so a few.I can't recall how I bumped into this book, but it was either m...

Happy Friday!I've worked with a lot of folks in different roles over the years, and I want to spend this email writing about project managers.And, I'm going to try and keep my usual snarkiness in check.I said "try."While most that I've worked with di...

Happy Friday,I'm about to get a lot of snow, and we live in an area that doesn't get a lot of snow. So, of course, my mind goes to something like wanting to talk about a lesser-known interest of mine: Tiki drinks.The Mai Tai is probably the most famo...

Happy Friday!Well, things have been busy, but that is self-inflicted. One of those weird moments where I have something I'm really excited to work on, and so I'm running straight for it.Digital GardensThis is a really interesting idea that I bumped i...