These Are Well Intentioned, But Do They Lead To Better Outcomes? — Ever since graduating I’ve had this internal conflict. I want to do something special. I don’t know what, except that it should be special. So what should it be? I tell myself I don’t care if other people see it and that it’s for me, but not-so-deep-down I want people…

Over the last month or so I have been on a mission. It is a mission bigger than Barbenheimer. It is a mission bigger than two words mushed together. It’s even bigger than Tom Cruise’s latest mission. …

Here’s What I’m Doing About It — I first wrote about my experience with OCD in 2018. First my experience was bad, then I got over it and it went dormant…for a while. The last time I wrote about OCD was in early 2022. At that point I was pretty far removed from the worst of it…

And What Does It Have To Do With Nintendo’s Pikmin? — There are charming, curious and warm people. And then there’s everyone else. Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the charming ones and one day while gardening he came up with an idea for a game… “You have landed on a mysterious planet by accident…” These are the words first teasing Nintendo’s…

How You Can Be Confident Starting Today — We are all at the bleeding edge of our understanding. And we are all learning every day whether we realize it or not. It could be learning the new route to the grocery store you took last week. It could be learning how you look in beige. It could be…

31 Steps To Ensure Successful Testing From Start To Finish — Test Planning — It’s Never Too Early On a software implementation project testing is a critical activity prior to cutting over to production. This is very late in a project after analysis, design and implementation. Despite this you should start test planning as soon as the project starts. If you wait until the testing phase to create…

Are You An Architect Or A Puzzler? — I wasn’t going to move 1,000 miles across the country to fail. Hundreds of people had come before me and succeeded. Here I was on the 9th day of July for my first day on the job. I was standing at the bottom starting up at an enormous learning curve…

Part 1: How To Find A Mentor — Starting a new job is like competing on American Ninja Warrior. It looks easy on TV, but when you’re there standing alone at the starting line with the course staring back at you, you panic. And that’s before you consider that the folks competing on American Ninja Warrior (ANW) are…

Principles Of Effective Leadership From A Squid Game Manager — Guest post from Square 🔳 a squid games manager. You know Squid Game. I know this because it premiered on Netflix before the great password sharing purge. Previously folks shared passwords like a community. There was a sense of togetherness on the internet that was uncommon and Netflix snuffed it…