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I wrote an article on performance management and calibration processes for LeadDev! Learn why calibration processes can be incredibly toxic if you’re not careful and what you can do to make them as...

Pre-orders are finally live! For those of you who don't know, I've been writing a book for the past year. The intent is to help more people get into tech and to set them up to really succeed in the...

Just launched the website for my upcoming book, Running Start: How to Get a Job in Tech, Keep That Job, and Thrive! I'm hoping it'll explain what I wish to accomplish with the book and that I'll be...

After my time at Microsoft, I landed at Wayfair. I was one of the first groups of engineers to go through their then-new Wayfair Labs program. The Labs program was designed for people who were eith...

As a first-time speaker at iOSCon 2019, I was required to take a two-day workshop on conference speaking given by SkillsMatter. It was quite honestly the best piece of professional development I ha...

The first article that I published on Medium! It was about how companies often use “years of experience” as a requirement on job descriptions. I talked about why YOE is a horrible metric, biases ap...

My second article on Medium! I wrote about how unlimited PTO often gets a bad name, but it's really only as good as the culture that a company or manager creates around it. In order for unlimited P...

I started running a workshop series at Wayfair around how to speak at conferences. I took a lot of the information that I learned in the speaking workshop from SkillsMatter and combined it with my ...

I updated my Manager Readme to reflect the changes from my time at Wayfair to my time at Twitter. My Manager Readme is an important tool for people to understand how I work, what I value, and what ...

My fourth and final conference talk of 2019. I'm pretty proud of what I was able to accomplish over the course of just one year of speaking at conferences, especially since I'm deathly afraid of pu...

My third conference speaking experience! This time it was at AltConf 2019 in San Jose. It was so cool to get to be right next to WWDC and get to interact with so many developers who were going back...

My second talk, just two weeks after my first one. This time it was a 30-minute talk at CodeMobile 2019 in Chester, UK. The topic was the same as my first, "Dear Interviewee: What Your Interviewer ...

My first talk. In front of people and everything! I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to give a 15-minute lightning talk at iOSCon 2019 in London. My talk was titled "Dear Interviewee: Wh...

The first step is admitting it, so… I’M WRITING A BOOK!? It’s about how to get a job in tech, keep that job, and (hopefully) thrive. I’m writing it from a manager’s perspective and is basically all...