A Programmer's Dream

The Cost of Control: Why your Coprorate Network Isn't Ready for the Way We Work Now

We had the developer. The timeline. The budget. What we didn’t have was a network that could handle an outsider. One week, six provisioning tickets, and an Office 365 license later, we gave up. Not because the work wasn’t needed, but because our infrastructure couldn’t flex. That project should’ve been a win. Instead, it became a lesson.

The Quiet Truth of Software Development

Too many teams chase perfection and stall out. They wait for the cleanest implementation, the most elegant abstraction, the ideal architecture. Only to watch the feature miss its moment. But the truth is, the only code that matters is the code that ships.

On the Verge of OKRs, and the Work That Almost Was

After months of circling it, I was finally beginning to understand how OKRs might work for our team. Not as a checkbox or another dashboard. But as a way to create alignment without micromanagement. Clarity without control. They gave shape to a kind of outcome-focused leadership that I want to keep practicing. The kind that starts with intent, and trusts the team to chart the path.

Turning Business Goals into Product Roadmaps

Most roadmaps don’t fail because they’re wrong. They fail because they were never really tied to why the business needed them in the first place.I’ve seen that gap, between the big goals in the boardroom and the stories sprinted through by dev teams, swallow weeks, months and even whole years. And not for lack of talent. Just a lack of translation.