TL;DR: Brand isn't a role, it's what you bring. […] Personal Brand - that’s my next challenge. On the surface it should be pretty straightforward - how do people view the value I bring, what’s …

One of the things about the job hunt that makes it more daunting is the number of scams. Like a lot of phishing these days, the quality is definitely high. Enough so that my juvenile instinct to put …

I was fortunate enough to take two sabbaticals at my last company. Five weeks each, the first at the ten year mark, and the second at fifteen. […] When I joined the company, sabbaticals were …

It’s been a month now since my job status changed to Resource Unassigned. I was fortunate enough to have 2 sabbaticals while at Nike, so I’ve had long breaks from work in the past, but obviously this …

It’s interesting looking at software development job postings that still list requirements like X+ years of Java or Y+ years of TypeScript. There are certainly some niche languages where I think …

I spend way too much time thinking about words. Currently I’m obsessed with finding a very specific word or phrase. […] There’s a phenomenon that many of us encounter where we grow confident …

One nit-picky side-effect of the surge of AI & Hype Train that causes my brain flutters, is the speed at which terms can become meaningless. A few months ago I had been tossing around Orchestrator …

I’ve had a few conversations over the past week that circled around the shifting or diminishing rewards of being a developer in the age of agents. If the fun of coding & debugging is shifted into …

Day n* of what's next. […] I'm abandoning the ordinal approach. The next post will just be what's-next, and this is the transition. […] Today it's Why Nike? How did I end up there? What …

Day 4 of what's next. The world of the Resume. […] It's daunting for most of us. Spartan vs Overstuffed. Vintage MSWord layout vs Markdown. Tailored per application vs focused on what you're …