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How AI Helps (and Doesn’t Help) with My 70k Reader Newsletter

The Hidden Cost of Process: A Guide for Tech Leaders

KPIs Gone Wild: Cautionary Tales of Lost Customer Obsession

From One-Way to Two-Way Doors: Rethinking How We Make Big Decisions

Your Boss Thinks You Suck. Now What?

Delegate Delegation — An Upgrade to the Common Delegation Practice of Micro Management

You Must Find a Passion Project - AKA How to Avoid Being a Boring Human

Resolve Risk First - Why Complexity and Ambiguity Not Effort Should Dictate Your Focus

How to Both Embrace and Defeat Imposter Syndrome

Inside a High-Severity Outage: A Late Night Sev-2 at Amazon

13 Tech Career Misconceptions — Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier

Heard of Design Patterns? How About Behavior Patterns.

Writing and Speaking Clearly and Concisely - Upgrading Your Communication

Why You Should Give Feedback — And How to Deliver It Without the Awkward Crying

RTO is a lie, 3rd party misinformation, the source of my anecdotes, and how (not) to make decisions. An article of many topics!

A Time When I Was Tricked Into Being Honest — Bringing Facts Into Work Discussions

Do Jerks Get Hired For Management Roles, or Does Management Create Jerks?

The Art of Simplification: Why We (over) Build When We Should Simplify

The 150 Point Rule of Thumb. How to Strategically Approach Career Pivots.

The Six Steps to Saying No — Why Being a Team Player is Not Necessarily Great

Failure is Necessary for Achievement and Growth — Why Success is Dangerous for Learning

From Star Employee to Struggling Leader — A Simple Explanation of Your Manager's Incompetence

You Can't Schedule Creativity: Putting Inspiration Into Your Outlook Calendar

The Hidden Advantage of Sharp Edges — Why Being Disagreeable is Best

4 Common But Insidious Patterns That Derail Software Projects

Managers Make Teams Deliver More Value, Not Deliver More Output