Over at simplermachines.com Nat Bennett published an excellent draft article on what management at Pivotal was like. Every choice comes down to trade-offs. As Nat pointed out, these practices origi...

In this post I will be going over basic communication practices for new managers. Embracing these practices will help to Make your point Avoid creating a unsafe work environment Avoid upsett...

During the first half of my career I mostly worked on SaaS products. When I started working on a on-prem system with many large enterprise customers, I quickly learned a few important differences t...

TL;DR Many companies still follow policies from a pre-remote world Remote labor will be it’s own market The remote labor market will set a new floor in many locations Roles that must be in...

Hacker News recently had a discussion of a fairly popular Tweet on the meaning of SemVer. Absolutely. The thing about semver major version numbers are that they don't mean new stuff, they'...

I read this book about five years ago, but realized that I remembered very little of it other than that I had enjoyed it and found it quite insightful. Since I recently have been listening to quite...