a tech worker brain dump

From consulting to the sewers of the internet At some point in my consulting years, I had reached I point I totally lost the motivation to move forward. Get assigned a project, do interviews, kick-offs, hunk down in a room for a bunch of hours and work out a deck with some obvious stuff but…

I find this difference extremely compelling, especially considering my time spent working in startups. Startups move fast, sometime break things or end up breaking themselves, but they do have a weird relationship with knowledge. More specifically, they struggle more than bigger companies at transforming cyclical knowledge into compound and functional knowledge. One of the most…

Learning to code can be daunting and challenging. It’s easy to fall into what’s called “tutorial hell”—an endless sequence of tutorials that often have little impact on real learning. A few years ago, one weekend, I stumbled upon a quick tutorial showing how to build and deploy a fully functional URL shortener. Although a URL…