My thoughts on development, engineering, leadership, and curated readings from around the web that I find valuable.
Learning is like building a house: you need to prepare the ground, pour the foundation, frame the structure, add the essentials, and make it your own. A practical framework for approaching any learning journey.
Original: Dave Bailey on Terrible Software β’ 6/24/2025
Curated: August 20, 2025
Original: Dustin Curtis on dcurt.is β’ 6/20/2025
Curated: August 12, 2025
Original: Sean Goedecke on Sean Goedecke's Blog β’ 6/15/2025
Curated: August 5, 2025
How deep should you go? Learn to recognize when you have enough context to solve your problem vs. when you're falling down a rabbit hole.
Original: Better Than Random on Better Than Random β’ 6/8/2025
Curated: July 22, 2025
Original: Koomen on Koomen's Blog β’ 6/8/2025
Curated: July 15, 2025
Original: James Stanier on The Engineering Manager β’ 5/28/2025
Curated: July 8, 2025
Original: Stay SaaSy on Stay SaaSy β’ 6/2/2025
Curated: June 18, 2025
Original: Graph Thinking on Graph Thinking β’ 5/22/2025
Curated: June 12, 2025
Original: Seb on Seb's Website β’ 5/18/2025
Curated: June 2, 2025
Original: pscanf on pscanf β’ 5/10/2025
Curated: May 28, 2025
Original: Nick McGreivy on Understanding AI β’ 5/19/2025
Curated: May 25, 2025
Original: Tadaima on Tadaima Blog β’ 5/15/2025
Curated: May 22, 2025
Original: Alex Cristea on Alex Cristea's Substack β’ 5/2/2025
Curated: May 18, 2025
Original: Anne Helen Petersen on Culture Study β’ 4/20/2025
Curated: May 5, 2025
Original: Harvard Business Review on Harvard Business Review β’ 4/22/2025
Curated: April 28, 2025
Problem solving is rarely linear. Learn how to make steady progress through iteration, and understand that the problem you start with might not be the real problem.
Original: Seth Godin on Seth's Blog β’ 4/14/2025
Curated: April 18, 2025
Original: Shrivu Shankar on Shrivu's Substack β’ 4/13/2025
Curated: April 16, 2025
Original: Eric Lu on Kapwing Blog β’ 4/3/2025
Curated: April 8, 2025
Original: Manuel KieΓling on The Log Book of Manuel KieΓling β’ 3/31/2025
Curated: April 6, 2025
Original: Microsoft Edge Team on Microsoft Edge Blog β’ 3/19/2025
Curated: March 28, 2025
Original: Mariam on Kasurian β’ 3/9/2025
Curated: March 22, 2025
Original: Pawel Brodzinski on Pawel Brodzinski's Blog β’ 3/1/2025
Curated: March 8, 2025
Original: Piotr MigdaΕ on Piotr MigdaΕ's Blog β’ 2/17/2025
Curated: February 17, 2025
Original: OpenAI on OpenAI Blog β’ 1/15/2025
Curated: January 28, 2025
My reflections on the art of receiving feedback effectively, based on conversations with colleagues who've been through recent performance cycles.
Original: Simon Willison on Simon Willison's Weblog β’ 12/22/2024
Curated: January 5, 2025
My reflections on the overwhelming pressure in tech to learn quickly and how digital consumption affects our ability to focus and create meaningful work.
My thoughts on the imbalance between interview preparation resources and the reality that senior professionals spend more time interviewing than being interviewed.
What do you do when you have no idea where to start? Learn the three phases of tackling unfamiliar problems: Experiment, Research, and Experts.
My thoughts on Charles H. Green's trust equation and the challenges of quantifying human relationships in management contexts.
Original: Sean Goedecke on Sean Goedecke's Blog β’ 8/15/2024
Curated: November 8, 2024
My thoughts on Adrian Cockcroft's insights about organizational decline and the signs that indicate it might be time to move on.
Original: React Team & JSer on React Documentation β’ 3/20/2024
Curated: October 15, 2024
My thoughts on Kent Beck's latest book about empirical software design, tidying code, and the theory of optionality in software development.
Being explicit about what kind of answer you want can save hours of wasted time. Learn how to communicate your intentions clearly when asking questions.
Original: Dave Bailey on Terrible Software β’ 3/31/2025
Curated: July 18, 2024
Everything that surrounds a question is part of its context. Learn how to provide the right information so others can reproduce and understand your problems.
Original: CSS Hell on CSS Hell β’ 1/1/2024
Curated: May 12, 2024
Problems are relative to context and knowledge. Learn why asking the right questions is the first and most crucial step in solving any problem.
Original: Dave Kellogg on Kellblog β’ 3/8/2015
Curated: February 20, 2024
A talk about the importance of asking questions in the developer community and overcoming the shame around not knowing something.
An introductory talk about microfrontends covering advantages, disadvantages, and real-world implementations from companies like IKEA, Spotify, and PayPal.
My methodology for tackling coding challenges, from brute force to optimized solutions using real examples.
I'm always open to discussing new opportunities and interesting projects.
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