The Autistic Engineer

Executives must first change and transform themselves before expecting the organisation to

Enjoy software development by embracing deliberate practice.

An interesting topic that I’ve been thinking about recently.

Finding work as a highly technical, external, independent consultant.

The unseen struggle with Anxiety, Meltdowns, and shameful Apologies.

A lifetime of daily functioning difficulties masked by other childhood diagnoses.

A handbook for software development teams and their managers

Better software requirements for development teams

Poor communication, in some shape or form, is almost always the problem.

Ambitions bigger than maximising profit and reducing tax.

Maximising your productivity through focused work is conventional wisdom that I no longer believe applies to me.

There seems to be a polarising divide between identifying as neurodivergent and using the term ‘disabled’. It’s like you need to pick a…

Seeing things in a fairly black-and-white way can cause problems

How a family crisis and terrible job market repositioned my most valuable professional knowledge into a specialist offering.

Reflections on a lifetime of seeing myself the same as everyone else.

Clients don’t understand the value they get from hiring a generalist who can work across multiple specialist areas

The courage to walk away from a difficult commercial relationship that was no longer satisfying

Rediscovering the love of software development as part of the open-source community

No one leaves university with the goal of contracting for the rest of their working life, and yet, that is exactly what happened