AI The Real AI Threat Isn’t Sci-fi (It’s So Much Worse) New Skills! v1.2 brings /wait-what, /writing-for-agents, and fixes /grill-me GitHub Copilot Tips & Tricks Software engineering Build Async Messaging in .NET with Azure Service Bus Systems thinking Methods for…
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Professional Development – 2026 – Week 31
Process 3 Questions to Pressure-Test Your Priorities
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 30
AI Researchers studied AI layoffs. Here’s their warning. The problem is that companies operate in a competitive environment. Your competitors are using AI to cut costs, so your company is forced to do the same (i.e., trapped). Doing so has…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 29
Software Development The complete AI Coding workflow: learn mattpocock/skills in 17 minutes Matt Pocock went over how to install and configure his set of popular skills. He also walked through an end-to-end example. The sequence is grill-with-docs, to-spec, to-tickets, implement,…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 19
Agile Time Pressure Improves Productivity & Quality…Up to a Point (via Mountain Goat Software) There’s a U-shaped curve for productivity vs. pressure. Not enough pressure, and delivery is late. Too much pressure, and you’ll build something unsustainable (or burn people…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 14
Dates covered: April 1-7, 2019 (week 14 of 52) Business The Innovation Equation (via Harvard Business Review) There are four parameters: equity fraction (what you get from outcomes instead of rank — hard equity = financial stakes, soft equity =…
Battle Damaged F-4G Phantom: Part 2
In the previous post I primed several parts for painting. This post covers painting the crewmen and the cockpit. (Scroll all the way to the bottom of the post to skip to the YouTube video.) Logistics So my last post…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 2
Dates covered: January 7-13, 2019 (week 2 of 52) Business The Legacy of Herb Kelleher, Cofounder of Southwest Airlines (via Harvard Business Review) Herb passed away last week, and those who knew him appreciated his leadership style. 30 years after…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 52
Dates covered: December 24-30, 2018 (week 52 of 52) Career How Executives Can Build a Side Career in Teaching (via Harvard Business Review) It’s possible to land an adjunct position at a university without a PhD. It can be quite…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 1
Dates covered: January 1-7, 2018 (week 1 of 52) Career Interview questions for executive, PMs or other leadership candidates. (via Software Lead Weekly) Should engineering managers write code? Wrong question. (via Software Lead Weekly) Process The #NoEstimates debate: An unbiased look at…