06 Jan While You’re In There, Could You Just…
The seven words that ate my yearI was supposed to be focused on business development last year. Instead, I was doing technical work.It started reasonably...
30 Dec Fifty-Two Weeks Later
What I almost missed while chasing what I didn't accomplish...
23 Dec How I Engineered the Joy Out of Christmas (A Spreadsheet Tragedy)
Running totals, category splits, and real-time variance calculations because nothing says "holiday spirit" like balanced budget allocations...
16 Dec The Competence Paradox: Why Engineers Discount the Skills That Come Easily
Why the thing that sets you apart feels completely ordinary...
09 Dec The Skill High Performers Lose First: Doing Things for No Reason
Forest Gump taught me something about optimization that 25 years of engineering couldn't...
02 Dec The Leadership Conference Where I Was 1 of 10 Men (Out of 500)
What being the extreme minority taught me about the invisible work we force on others...
25 Nov The Way Engineers Help Their Teams That Quietly Holds Them Back
The Facebook Marketplace moment that showed me what I'd been doing wrong as a manager...
18 Nov Promises Don’t Rebuild Trust. Pattern Changes Do.
It is not the big failures that cost you. It is the pattern everyone else can see.I picked up a client last year because their...
11 Nov What an Uneventful Week Taught Me About Remembrance Day
"Sometimes an ordinary week is its own kind of gift...
04 Nov The Weekend I Doubled My Consulting Rate (And Panicked Over Nothing)
Here's what happens when you manufacture rejection before the client even responds...