Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact

You can go a long way as a software engineer without ever managing to think clearly. The feedback loop of writing and running code is so…

Saying no to leadership is sometimes necessary when you’re at the helm of a project. Whether they’re proposing a timeline that can’t be…

My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing that’s working, and a few things that have…

For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia. First I worked in a satellite office for…

As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…