Software’s Intrinsic Value
Fireside Stories #10: That time I lost my cool in the middle of a big meeting in front of the CTO.
Reputation
Fireside Stories #9: That time I was pretty sure I wrote software for the mob.
Attention
Fireside Stories #8: That time I won over a hostile sales team.
Monoliths and Microservices
Fireside Stories #7: That time I built a high-performing team and then management split us up.
Learning
Fireside Stories #6: That time I realized a rockstar hire didn’t know how write software
Managerial Styles
Fireside Stories #5: That time I was made a team lead over my mentor
The Great Resignation
Fireside Stories #4: That time I learned how to write high performance software
Bongoscout’s Question
Fireside Stories #3: That time I argued the necessity of a MacBook Pro with a billionaire founder
The Joy of Coding
Fireside Stories #2: That time I was schooled on how to really find bugs
Cynicism
Fireside Stories #1: That time I was disrespected by a QA contractor who didn’t know that I ran the whole project
Hungarian Connection
Anyone Can Code
Social Media
Accountability
Bravery
Mental Health Day
Critical Thinking
Procrastination
Erik’s First Day
Hiring
The Hustler Mindset
How a Tech Lead Should Leave a Company
Churn
How to Take Over a Failing Software Project
Thoughts on “The Fatal Flaw of Free Market Capitalism”
Should Software Developers Return to the Office?
Should You Become a Manager?
Building a Software Development Career from a Third-World Country
Building Relationships
Remote Work’s Effect on American Innovation
How to Architect a Software Application
Why I think there is nothing wrong with the term ‘Soft Skills’
Simon Sinek gave a passionate explanation as to why he hates the term ‘Soft Skills’; A majority of experts surveyed were against the term; Even the U.S. Army has a problem with referring to leadership and communication skills as ‘Soft’.
Read More »Building and Leading a Technical Team
Picking Technologies
Imposter Syndrome
F-35
Correct by Configuration
Recession Proofing
Retaining Top Performers
Social Anxiety
Flipping a House vs. Building a Home
Professionalism
Interviewing the Interviewer
Why Agile Is So Popular
Frontend Developers
Mentors
Musk
Fear
Bugs
Security
Politics
Intuition and Ergonomics
Agile
Dealing with a Diva Developer
Cyberpunk 2077
Dave Whipple’s Wisdom
Growth Mindsets
Volkswagen vs. Tesla
Ethics
The Architect’s Dilemma
ScrumMaster.games
Laziness and Incompetence
Employee Happiness
Breaking Up Facebook
Architecture’s Relationship to Business Outcomes
PSF: Previsualize, Sleep, Flow
Improving Scrum
Career Advice
Is It Worth Learning to Be a Software Developer in 2020?
Haters
My Perfect Business
CoffeeScript/Battojutsu
Brainstorming/Stoicism
WiT
WordPress/Code Pledge
Planting Seeds
Code Consistency
Atlanta
Non-Technical Development Managers Are Like Head-Chefs Who Can’t See, Taste, or Smell
I have made no secret of the fact that that I find non-technical managers useless in the delivery of software, but today while recording a podcast, I realize they have another fatal flaw: they can’t evaluate the performance of their team.
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