Daily Meetings are Great but You Should Never Have Them

Getting everyone together face-to-face isn’t always the best way to share information.

Bye-Bye Birdie

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Quit Checking Twitter

Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.
 —…

Do You Write Code, or Are You a Developer?

Creative trades are about more than going through the motions.

Earning Your Candor at Both Ends

A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he admired in others, but…

Church Signs and Context

Clever is rarely accurate.

The Stoichiometry of Software Projects

Success and failure for any software project hang on how well you balance your constraints.

Why Toolsmithing is Important

Tools add value above and beyond their practical uses — they inspire us to be better.

Enough About Columbus, Let’s Talk About Eggs

Simple solutions are not always obvious.

On Higher Education

There’s value in a college education, just not as much as there used to be. Especially if you’re only worried about improving your employability.