How I Assess Engineering Health in My First Week at a New Org
The diagnostic framework I run every time I join a new engineering organization, and why the data is only half the picture. The first week at a new co…
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Why Your Business Needs an AI Integration Strategy (Not Just an AI Tool)
The hype cycle for AI adoption in businesses often follows a familiar, and often frustrating, trajectory. It begins with the undeniable allure of a po…
In the Beginning Was the Word
Why your organization's source of truth isn't your database it's your conversation Every organization already contains its operational state. It is no…
Cost of Delay
The Cost Nobody Tracks A team needed feedback from users. The proposed solution was technically sound: flexible question types flexible answer types r…
Turning Kiro Into a Leadership Coach With Meeting Transcripts
As an Engineering Manager in a Platform team, I manage 10 engineers. I'm hiring more. I run weekly 1:1s, facilitate technical decision meetings, scree…
One AI Vendor Is a Single Point of Failure. Treat It Like One.
One AI Vendor Is a Single Point of Failure. Treat It Like One. The AI model you built your workflow on today may be indistinguishable from its competi…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Now Available at Enterprise Scale
The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Now Available at Enterprise Scale The research is starting to coalesce, with different angles on whether AI is degrading hu…
The Engineering Manager Is the Most Informed Person in the AI Room
Engineering managers are almost entirely absent from the AI transformation discourse. There's a structural reason for that, and understanding it is th…
How to turn invisible impact into career growth
A lot of the work that keeps a team moving never fits neatly into a ticket. Sure, you have your assigned tasks, estimates, PRs, and shipped features. …
Your AI Coding ROI Is Disappearing and Your Dashboard Won't Tell You
Your AI Coding ROI Is Disappearing and Your Dashboard Won't Tell You The dashboard looks great. The delivery numbers don't. Your AI coding dashboard l…
Are Companies Really Doing Layoffs "For AI"?
Are Companies Really Doing Layoffs "For AI"? Amazon did it. Atlassian did it. Meta is reportedly doing it. Jack Dorsey set the tone by cutting half of…
Quiet Exits, Quiet Collapse (Part 2): How Organizations Remove People without Signal
What the system loses when the exit completes — and why it cannot measure the loss. The morning after the exit, the organization continues. Emails are…
The Future of Work Has Two Human Ends
Every CEO Dan Shipper recently offered a sharp way to think about AI and work. As models become better at summarizing, drafting, coding, researching, …
Working With Japanese Clients Humbled Me Faster Than I Expected
About three months ago, after clearing JLPT N3, which is considered a good level in Japanese and gets you entry-level jobs apparently, I genuinely tho…
The First-Time Founder's Guide to Delegation (Without Losing Control)
There is a specific kind of pain that hits founders somewhere between five and fifteen people. You hired well. Your team is capable. And yet you can't…
Quiet Exits, Quiet Collapse (Part 1): How People Become Exitable without Noise
There is a specific kind of professional experience that has no official name. It is not termination. It is not conflict. It is not the moment someone…
Comprehension Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code
Comprehension Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code "You're not a developer anymore. You're a reviewer of code you don't understand." That line f…
Boring Is the Feature When Money Is Moving
I have spent more than a decade in commerce shaped engineering. The industry loves a shiny launch narrative. The job that actually keeps companies ali…
What "100% of Our Code Is Written by AI" Actually Means
What "100% of Our Code Is Written by AI" Actually Means The misunderstood statement that's driving bad investment decisions, unrealistic hiring plans,…
Tech Burnout Isn't a Resilience Problem — It's an Organizational Design Failure
A few days ago, Harsh Tiwari published a piece on Dev.to that's worth your time: What Burnout Actually Feels Like (Not What Instagram Tells You) . It …
Only 3% of Companies Have Truly Transformed with AI
Google surveyed 2,643 business leaders and knowledge workers across 6 countries. The headline finding: only 3% of organizations have truly transformed…
The Best AI Engineers Are Product Managers
The Best AI Engineers Are Product Managers Why the skills that make great PMs are the same skills that unlock AI productivity You hired a brilliant en…
The Irony of AI Development: How Context Engineering Is Taking Us Back to Waterfall
The Irony of AI Development: How Context Engineering Is Taking Us Back to Waterfall And Why That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing For three decades, the …
The AI Bullwhip: What The Beer Game Teaches Us About Uneven AI Adoption
The AI Bullwhip: What The Beer Game Teaches Us About Uneven AI Adoption Why introducing AI to one team might break others—and how to avoid the chaos S…
Diagnosis Didn't Change My Leadership. Ownership Did.
I left a role in part because one cross-functional relationship kept overstimulating me and I did not have a framework to understand my own reaction p…
Workforce Transformation: AI Impact on Enterprise Roles
A conversation we keep having with CEOs goes something like this. They ask, “Is AI going to cost us headcount?” What they are often hoping for is a cl…
Your Team Doesn't Need a Buddy. It Needs a Coach.
I have sat in too many 1:1s where everyone felt better walking out and nothing changed two weeks later. No clear gap named. No behavior contract. No f…
Most 1:1s Are Career Drift Meetings
He looked me in the eye in a 1:1 and asked, "What do I need to do to get to the next level?" He was hungry, driven, and teachable ... and had no clear…
95% of AI Pilots Fail. The Technology Works Fine.
Boards in the $30M–$500M range are being asked the same question right now: "Can we move on AI?" The pressure is understandable. Competitors are exper…
Beyond the Code: Mentoring the Next Generation of Engineers at Six Flags
Technology is often viewed through the lens of lines of code and GitHub commits, but its true impact lies in the community it builds. Recently, repres…