Organizations
How Frugality Creates Innovation in Products and Apparently Movies
Frugality isn't simply about saving money. It's about focusing your attention on what matters.
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Late Career
You Should Be a Product Owner — Plus a Story of Dave Being a Jerk
Stepping outside your job role is a critical behavior for senior leaders. But everyone should consider their job as their area of specialty, not their only focus.
Early Career
6 Mechanisms Which Drive Personal Career Success
These mechanisms relate to your ability to focus on your priorities, drive your career forward, and network over the years. Small but critical tools you can use to make career progress.
Late Career
6 Behaviors of Lazy People That Create Career Success
Not all lazy behaviors are valuable, and setting the right (productive) tone with your co-workers is important. But certain lazy traits are valuable, and should be encouraged.
Late Career
Are you Leading or Winning? You Can't Win a Promotion.
Focusing on leading, rather than winning, creates significantly better results for you and your team.
Late Career
Why Senior Employees Need to Audit and Verify Things for Themselves — It's Not (Only) That We Don't Trust You
As a junior employee, you learn everything firsthand. As you grow in seniority, you begin to learn things second and thirdhand. How do you audit to ensure you still get firsthand knowledge?
Interviewing
Technical Skills Are Overrated. Focus on Your Attitude.
When interviewing, particularly for technical positions, many people over value their technical preparation, and don't consider the importance of personality and leadership preparation.
Mid Career
Changing How Others Perceive You. Most Importantly, Those Who Dislike You.
If you've found yourself on someone's bad side, what strategies can you use to turn things around?
Personal Dave Posts
A Simple Guide to Financial Independence
Tech industry workers are amazingly lucky. Great income with a (generally) healthy job market? It's time to take advantage of that luck.
Late Career
Burnout and Layoffs — Approaches to Managing Overwork and Limited Resources
Layoffs have left many teams underresourced. The inevitable result is employees feeling stressed, and working long hours. Here are some approaches to improving your situation.
Mid Career
Reckless Bias for Action — A Tale of Immaturity and Impatience
Bias for Action has long been one of my favorite leadership principles. Not just because it's a critical leadership skill, but because I'm quite impatient.
People Managers
A Non-Coding Engineering Manager is One Thing, But What About Non-Technical?
A hotly debated topic is how technical an engineering manager needs to be. I dive into the topic, including ways a non-technical leader can learn.