Blog

2025

• Good Troublemakers (14 May 2025)
• Psychological safety won't make people care (13 May 2025)
• I've always loved em dashes—and I don't want to stop using them (12 May 2025)
• You need to be a self-starter to succeed here (04 May 2025)
• Engineers as AI supervisors (15 Apr 2025)
• Culture Fit is more important than technical skill (21 Jan 2025)

2024

• Smooth the path to the interview (20 Dec 2024)
• Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (and me) (23 Aug 2024)
• Don't lower the bar to increase diversity (01 Aug 2024)
• The best team I've managed (22 Jul 2024)
• Open interviews are my default now (11 Feb 2024)
• Servant leader traps - being liked (05 Feb 2024)
• Interviewing after AI in Jan 2024 (29 Jan 2024)

2023

• Podcast - Psychological Safety with Heather Story (29 Nov 2023)
• Roundtable - Relocating for work (21 Nov 2023)
• Podcast - The Coder Career (11 Sep 2023)
• Roundtable - How to Hire Without Unconscious Bias (06 Sep 2023)
• Managing Up I (25 Aug 2023)
• Ethical Office Politics - Introduction (01 Aug 2023)
• Put them on a PIP (21 Jun 2023)
• Disagreeing with my scrum master (19 Jun 2023)
• Over-identifying and burning out (14 Jun 2023)
• Zombie teams (13 Jun 2023)
• Are you a disillusioned manager? (05 Jun 2023)

2022

• Tech Tests and Certainty (22 Oct 2022)
• How I find a therapist (08 Sep 2022)
• Unexamined Theory Y Management (03 Aug 2022)
• PETALs in Engineering Management (20 Mar 2022)

2020

• Learning NVC through expressing praise (30 Dec 2020)
• Towards a high view of managers (22 Dec 2020)
• A thread about adding a new teamie (02 Dec 2020)
• Facilitation II (02 Jun 2020)
• Nonviolent Communication Slides 2020 (01 Feb 2020)

2019

• Thoughts On Hiring 2019 (02 Aug 2019)
• Postmodern People Management I (08 Apr 2019)

2018

• On Remote Working Teams I (02 Nov 2018)
• Manager README 2018 (09 Sep 2018)