I named myself, professionally, after a rule about litter. The Boy Scout Rule is the one every camp drills into you: leave the campsite cleaner than you found it. Robert Baden-Powell’s version, in the last message he …
I was in a job interview yesterday, on the wrong side of the desk for once. After years of being the one asking the questions I’m having a look at what’s next, and somewhere in a long, wandering technical conversation …
By any sensible reading of an org chart, I have no business being in this file. I’m a Head of Software Engineering. My calendar reckons I should be in a room somewhere talking about headcount and roadmaps. Instead it’s …
I have a retirement plan, and it is gloriously low-tech. A cabin, some trees, a woodstove, and a firm rule that no wifi symbol ever appears within a mile of me again. I think about it more than is probably healthy. …
