Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
19 May 2025
There’s a moment in every project where the translation breaks down. Engineers are speaking in systems. Executives are speaking in outcomes. And too often, no one is really listening to each other.I’ve spent most of my career standing in that gap.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
12 May 2025
Early in my career, I rebuilt a wizard engine in a .NET WebForms app. It was dynamic, elegant, fast, and borderline indecipherable. It worked. But it didn’t live well. I’ve come to learn that the best code isn’t the most inventive. It’s the most understandable. Simple code invites collaboration. It survives context loss. It doesn’t need to be decoded six months later.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
05 May 2025
There was a time when resumes were crafted solely for human eyes -- when paper weight, typography, and a well-chosen phrase mattered more than algorithms or parsing engines. Today, we write for two audiences. The machine that scans for keywords and patterns, and the human who still craves a story.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
28 Apr 2025
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.