15 May 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...
24 Feb They promised. I vouched. The trust didn’t recover.
The moment I realized I'd been passing along fiction as fact.There's a specific kind of awful that comes from realizing you've been repeating someone else's...
17 Feb Two Months Late With Cheap Deli Trays (And Why It Worked)
The commitment you keep badly still beats the one you never keep at all.I showed up to a client's office last week with grocery store...
10 Feb Your Client Thinks You Ghosted Them (You Sent 13 Updates Last Week)
When comprehensive becomes invisible, and your most detailed work guarantees nothing gets read...
03 Feb The Day I Finally Felt Valued (And It Had Nothing To Do With My Work)
When a leader closed the door for a personal conversation, I realized what I'd been missing my entire career...
27 Jan Why Being Easy to Work With Is Killing Your Career
The flexibility that's supposed to help you advance is eroding your credibility insteadI told a client we could handle a project. Then my own team...
20 Jan The Shoeshine Kit That Exposed How Far I’d Slipped
Small rituals of professionalism aren't vanity - they're what keep you from slipping into the 'good enough' version of yourself.Last month, I pulled out a...
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...
30 Dec The Competence Paradox: Why Engineers Discount the Skills That Come Easily
Why the thing that sets you apart feels completely ordinary...
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