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Someone called me a good teacher and I wanted to argue. Here's what mentoring juniors, teaching my six-year-old drums, and handing off platform frameworks taught me about ego, understanding, and why teaching is the real work.
Every tool you know is depreciating. The one skill that isn't is your ability to learn unfamiliar things fast - and it quietly atrophies if you only ever work inside your comfort zone. Here's the case for deliberate brain breaks.
We badly underestimate what we already know, about our craft and about ourselves. A Father's Day reflection on my daughters, journaling, and why writing it down is how you find out what's in your head.
You see a better way to build something, but you don't own the budget, the roadmap, or the teams. Six things that have actually worked for me to win people over and enact change.
You know you've created value when you've built a product that earns people's trust. A story from a loss-prevention project at AutoZone, and a manufacturing COO who ran the same playbook on a shop floor.
I've been interviewing QA/QE candidates lately, and the bar is not what I expected to find. Here's what I'm actually evaluating - shared in the spirit of helping the right people level up.
Someone asked me how I handle ambiguity. Here's my honest answer - and why I'm not entirely sure it's right.
I blanked for eight seconds in a staff engineer interview after leaning on AI to prep - and it failed me. Here's what I should've done instead, and why I keep getting pulled toward the role that bridges technical depth and business acumen.
