The last year has brought lots of changes. I won't go into all of them now, but I can say that I found myself feeling physically depleted much of the time. To that end, I've spent the last 6-8 weeks …
2021 Year in Review
2020 Year in Review | All Annual Reviews As I expected, I would not finish this post in 2021, but I figure we're still in a reasonable time horizon. What can I say? This year was also really …
Hello, Goodbye 2020. Year in review.
As much as I would love to write it off, I did actually accomplish a number of things in 2020. I think 2020 was the first year that I did not travel anywhere by air in at least 21 years. I hit …
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The Dangers of Groupthink
I worked in a technology firm where there was a list serve called “Town Hall”. This was meant to be a safe place where there was total transparency about company operations. There were also similar …
Who would you prefer your clients remember: you or your firm?
I remember my good friend and ThoughtWorks colleague, Luke Barrett, saying: "If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing well." We shared numerous consulting assignments together and in all cases, …
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Tech apprenticeship is the new CS degree
The digital economy has the potential to open up opportunities for millions. This reality has become possible only in the last few years. When I entered the IT industry in the 1990's, the market was …
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