Every room I enter, I am looking. Not scanning. Not browsing. Looking. The way the faithful look for signs. Years of faces. Years of almost. Years of wrong mouth, wrong laugh,wrong silence. Then you. Not lightning. Not revelation. Just recognition, like remembering a word I didn't know…
You're rejecting candidates because they didn't reverse a binary tree in 12 minutes. On a whiteboard. While someone watched. That's not evaluation. That's a hazing ritual with a MacBook. You want to know if someone can build your CRUD app. So you…
In my career, I've had the pleasure of working with and consulting with a lot of companies. As I'm sure we can all relate, there's a demand to improve productivity. As one digs deeper, I quite often encounter a lack of accountability, which stems…
Anxiety? Depression? Restless? No Energy? Stuck in a fog? Yes, men and women! This isn't some tale about the AI-generated water I drink daily, or the fleet of 33 cars I've amassed from passive income, all thanks to selling photos of my ears online at OnlyEars.…
In software engineering, there's always a moment where the community erupts over some new framework or technology. Sometimes it's genuinely new. Sometimes it's just something old that got rediscovered and paraded around like a returning messiah. 2009, enter Ruby on Rails for me. I…
Total Lego sets I’ve built: 1,298,398 Total Lego sets I’ve played with: 0. At ten years old, amidst memories of Knight Rider, A-Team, and AirWolf, a vivid memory stands out: our forever silent, "broken" lawnmowers. Drawn to our garage each day, I sought to…
I walk through the market of belonging. Stalls selling flags I've never wanted. The eyes find me. Not with hate. Just the quiet confusion of a door that was never installed. I am not rebellion. Rebellion still kneels to what it fights. I am the man who never…
It was a late night in 2012, phone blowing up with texts. "The wheels have come off the wagon!" My business partner was losing it while I was at the gym. Rushed home, jumped on the computer, and found the problem. I had configured an AWS LoadBalancer wrong.…
The number of times someone has mentioned CAP Theorem to me unprompted? I can count them on one finger. One. In 25+ years. Six years ago. Story time. It was an interview candidate. They brought it up and I nearly knocked my Liquid Death over. We talked about it for…
They chase power calling it purpose. As if the climb were the same as the cause. As if the throne would tell them who they were once they sat in it. But power doesn't answer questions. It only ends them. And purpose, real purpose, never needed a kingdom.…