Tech people have a superpower. They can communicate without speaking, without being in the same room, or even via email or teams. They can communicate… Read More »Missing The Social Cues – When The Tools Do The Talking
Most tech workers work remotely these days, if not very regularly then at least once in a while. But how do we work with others… Read More »Being Nice Asynchronously: The Discipline of Remote Working
It is incredibly powerful to realise that a single engineer can influence a team’s overall happiness and, by extension, their own happiness. But it can… Read More »How to be a Happier Software Engineer
or more accurately: “How to Train Your Brain to Handle Complexity and Uncertainty” This is part 2 of a 3-part series following my earlier post… Read More »How to Embrace Complexity and Uncertainty in Programming
Less than a year ago, I read Team Topologies for the first time. I was immediately struck by how it aligned with my experiences of… Read More »Avoiding Toxicity: How to Manage Cognitive Load
The other day I talked about the Big Scary Story, but sometimes it’s not the story that’s scary or even broken. The team is scared.… Read More »When The Team is Scared