Happy Friday!Today I want to write about a topic that is a bit different than the ones I typically do.Maybe it's the heat getting to me.Anyway, for a while, I've been on a journey of learning a bit about the copywriting profession. I think it's truly...

Happy Friday!I couldn't sleep last night. That gave me some time to think about what I'd write in this little newsletter. I thought I'd write about a topic I can go endlessly about, but it's hard for me to describe.It's just that our industry sucks a...

Happy Friday,Last night I went to the local beekeeping meeting and they went through honey harvesting methods and packaging. Most of the material I was familiar with, but there was enough new information to definitely make my time worthwhile.This had...

Happy Friday!Also, happy July 4th weekend! I thought I'd share an update on my bees. I set up my first two bee-hives at the end of March, and I've been checking on them every week. Still, as a new beekeeper, practical experience matters and I've made...

Happy Friday,It seems that no matter how many times I work with groups or even the same ones there's a question that will always come up that has to do with getting a team to do more than one thing at a time.I take a pretty firm stand on this subject...

Happy Friday!So there is a community I'm a part of that has daily topic discussions around engineering leadership. Yesterday they posted their own internal engineering benchmark studies and I thought I'd share it with you.You can find it here.I took...

Happy Friday!This week I had to kill a product. In a way, it feels like the first time I've ever done this, but when I think back there have been a lot of close calls over the years. So I thought I'd share a few examples and the lesson I've learned f...

Happy Friday,I'm going to admit it, I don't spend much time on social media or reddit or any of that stuff. TikTok, however, makes up for it.One interesting thing about TikTok is how good it is at curating the videos to show you. For me, I get all so...

Happy Friday!It seems like for the past few weeks it has been raining non-stop where I am. I don't mind the rain, but it keeps me from checking on my bees which I don't care for.Also, for the past few weeks, maybe months, it seems that most of my tim...

Happy Friday!As I step back a moment and look at the trends in software products over the decade or so I've been at this there are a few things that have more or less remained constant.Expectations only increaseCapabilities don'tWhat I mean is one go...