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...

On Friday, I led two back-to-back workshops about building resumes that lead to getting interviews, nearly 100% of the time. One of the things I was most worried about teaching people was how to write their experience in a way that shows value. Somet...

I am working with someone who has a different working style than myself. I find it interesting to watch them work. They often ask how they they can be more effective in their communication. I gave some advice that I was also given about how I communi...

So a lot of us are at home and adjusting while there is also much uncertainty in what the future holds. There’s a small idea that I want to offer as we get through these changes right now and in your career. Working From Home For everyone working fro...

The alarm goes off in the morning, and as usual, I begin my day by putting on my clothes. Now, I’ve been putting on my clothes for a long time, and I like to do things efficiently, so I put my clothes on in the following order: Shoes Socks Underwear...

I try to focus my writing on presenting a situation or problem and a way to move forward from it. In this article, I'm going to only focus on the problematic beliefs I encounter in organizations and individuals. The entire point of this little articl...

There are a lot of things to think about when choosing metrics, and most groups tend to get paralyzed debating measures and ultimately measure nothing. You Improve What You Measure So the risk of not measuring anything also means you risk not improvi...

There exists a trait common to most developers and development groups that causes lots of delays and costly mistakes. That trait is when you believe you can figure it out if you have more time. Junior developers get stuck on problems that a more seni...

I have been giving a lot of thought on making the most of the distance I currently have from my clients and teams. One idea that always keeps coming back is around visibility and transparency. It’s easy for people to wonder when there isn’t a call or...

Team is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot and sadly often means individuals assigned to work in close proximity. Since I specialize in building teams, I have a very different definition. Teams are a collection of folks who have traded...