The task isn’t the job
A new role, and some questions I want to build my way through.
A new role, and some questions I want to build my way through.
No, but it’s undergoing a revision. Written by Jessica Walsh.
How structured emergence solves manager burnout, team bottlenecks, and systemic design debt.
The economic shift that values human architectural judgment over execution speed.
A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless.
Most middle management roles make practicing executive skills difficult, and sometimes negatively select against developing them.
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. And there's a gross insult to all programmers everywhere.
Fifty years after its formal introduction, the discipline of IA is still widely misunderstood. Here‘s a corrective.
Nine stages of how people operate at work, in strict order, where each one is measured by a job it removes from your manager.
In an era where AI has made execution nearly free, the designer’s true value no longer lies in craft alone but in having a genuine point of view.
Three of the biggest changes in my life all stemmed, in part, from cold outreach.
A survey of 604 tech and design professionals found that “UX” remains the default name for our field, while alternative names remain fragmented.
Take the survey and help map all the aspects of a developer's life that are not code, especially as AI starts disrupting the very nature of our jobs.
Don’t miss out on the learning you get from building a real thing.
This series slips into the hours after the badge comes off—the unbranded life where designers become someone the job never meets.
Taste used to be a byproduct of the reps. Agents took the reps. So if you’re junior you now have to go get the taste and judgment on purpose.
When your manager is paying more attention to AI than your creative role, what can you do?
What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
Code is possibly the best medium to learn mathematics, and meta-skills for learning in general.
I didn’t expect to get so tired of reading LLM output.