Career & Roadmaps
Skills, roadmaps and growing a career in tech.
Using AI to Scale a Consulting Practice
AI did not replace me. It replaced the version of me that spent half the week on work no client was ever paying for.
AI Tutors & Personalized Learning
For forty years we have known one-to-one tutoring works almost magically well, and we could never afford it. Large language models change the math - but only if we remember that the model was never the teacher.
AI Tools for Project Managers
I was skeptical that an AI could help me run a project. A year later it drafts half my paperwork - and I trust it less than ever, in the best possible way.
Productizing Your Consulting Services
For years I sold my time and rewrote every proposal from scratch. The day I put a price on one repeatable result, my consulting practice finally started to behave like a business.
Scaling from Solo to Agency
Everyone treats growing an agency as the obvious next step. It is not a step at all - it is a different business, with a different life attached. Here is how to scale on purpose, or to decide, just as deliberately, not to.
Coaching & Mentoring Engineers
The senior engineer's hardest promotion isn't to staff - it's from being the person with the answers to the person who grows the people who have them.
Measuring Training Effectiveness (ROI)
Most training is measured by accident - attendance, smile sheets, hours delivered. Here is how to prove what learning is actually worth, and why the conservative number wins.
OKRs & Goal-Setting for Teams
Most teams don't lack ambition - they lack a finish line. Here's what changed when mine started writing goals we could actually score.
Leading Remote & Distributed Teams
The hardest part of leading people you never see is unlearning everything the office quietly did for you.
Personal Branding for Consultants
I spent my first two years as a consultant chasing clients. Then I built a brand, and the clients started chasing me. Here is what actually changed.
Building Recurring Revenue (Retainers)
The most stressful part of consulting is not the work. It is wondering where next month's work comes from. Retainers fix that - but only if you design them as an ongoing promise, not a discounted project.
How to Become a Truly "Unremarkable" Developer: The Insider's Guide
Having spent years working with developers, I’ve gathered some priceless "tips" to help you master the art of being an outstandingly bad developer.
Building an Online Course
Most online courses fail not because the teaching is bad, but because they were never designed to be finished. Here is how to build one that is.
Recording Great Video Tutorials
The gear matters less than you think. Here is what actually separates a tutorial people finish from one they abandon.
Hybrid Agile + Waterfall Delivery
Most organizations are neither agile nor waterfall. Stop apologizing for it and start designing for it.
Project Budgeting & Cost Control
Why the question "how much have we spent?" is the least useful thing you can ask about a project budget - and what to ask instead.
Find Your Perfect IT Job Based on Your MBTI Personality Type
Match your MBTI personality type to an IT career: from ENTJ IT managers and INTP programmers to ESTP support analysts and ISTP QA testers.
Citizen Science: Unlocking the Power of the Everyday Person in Tech Discovery
Citizen science lets everyday people drive discovery, from Galaxy Zoo to bird counts. How it works, why it matters and how you can get involved.
Exploring the World of No-Code Tools: Empowering Creativity Without Coding
In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, the emergence of no-code tools has revolutionized how individuals and businesses bring their ideas to life.
FullStack Development in 50 Days: Roadmap & Resources
FullStack Development is a dynamic realm of software engineering that encompasses both backend (server) and frontend (client) development.
Understanding and Crafting Effective Hypotheses in Research
So, you've honed in on your research question, delved into the depths of literature, and are poised to embark on your study.
Navigating the Research Methodology Maze: A Comprehensive Guide
A practical research methodology guide: define objectives, choose outputs, scope sources, gather information, evaluate credibility and synthesize findings.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: When Ignorance Breeds Confidence
The Dunning-Kruger effect explained: why people with low skill overestimate themselves, experts underestimate themselves and what it means for learning.
Running Client Workshops
Why the consultants clients ask for by name are the ones who can run a room — and how facilitation, not expertise, is the skill that compounds.