by mike | Jul 24, 2022 | Business, Software
Do what you love. Don’t worry about the rest. It’s so easy in tech to fall in the expert trap and stop learning, only to wake up 10 years later, laid off with no prospects. Over the past years, you became an expert… but… most technologies...
by mike | May 5, 2022 | Parenting
Unpopular opinion ahead: Sorry US Senate. Social media is a great scapegoat, but it is not the source of the teen mental health crisis. Social media is where teens go to communicate and cope. My sole qualification to write this: I have four kids that are either teens...
by mike | May 1, 2022 | Software
Here are a couple of really awful ways to build software. A lot of times, these are dressed up as an “agile methodology” or as a “product management framework”. Truth is they are just failure states that result in developer turnover, slow...
by mike | Apr 24, 2022 | Recruiting and Hiring
I just launched a podcast… Pivot2First. One of the best parts of working on my startup PivotCX has been getting to work with the best minds in recruiting and people strategy, and the podcast was created to share insight with C level executives and business...
by mike | Apr 2, 2022 | Software
Software lasts longer than you think. Way longer. I got a call a few weeks ago to see if I could update a program I wrote in Turbo C in 1989, when I was in high school. I re-implemented it in ZOC REXX* in 1994. The former client wanted me to patch the program to...
