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2026 Goals
Beekeeping Lesson - Cub Scouts
North American Honey Bee Expo 2023
Queen Rearing with Corey Stevens
Careers
Essays
3 Alternatives to Saying, “I Don’t Know” In Interviews
Acing Remote Interviews
Apply to Jobs You Don’t Want
Habit: Asking For Help
Avoiding a Common Mistake Searching for Jobs
The Basics of Salary Negotiation
Behind the Scenes of a Technical Interview
Blame the Intern
Crystal Clear
Details and Options
Enough Tutorials Already!
4 Reasons You Didn’t Get The Job
Habit: Checking-In
Habit: Update your Resume
How I’m Building My First Online Class
I’ll Never Be Good Enough
How I’m Creating an Online Class So You Can Too
The Importance of Breaks
Imposter Syndrome After a Decade
One Resume to Rule Them All
Practice Those Interviews
Resume Double Duty - Getting a Raise
Should I Go Back to School?
What’s My Value
Six-Figure Resume: Build a Resume With This Successful Format
Six-Figure Resume: Avoid These Resume Mistakes That Are Keeping You From Getting Interviewed
Six-Figure Resume: Building a Resume With No Dev Experience? No Problem!
Six-Figure Resume: How To Put Your Resume To Work And Get Interviewed and Promoted
Six-Figure Resume: Hey Devs! Your Portfolio Won’t Get You a Job, But Your Resume Will!
The Cold Interview
The Impossible Bar of a Professional
The Interviewing Cast
The Ups and Downs of Recruiters
Thinking About a Portfolio Site?
Time To Go
Want to Get More Interviews?
What Lifestyle Do You Want?
What Recruiters Don’t Tell You
When It Hurts Too Much, Leave
When Keywords Unlock Your Resume
Write a Resume that Doesn’t Suck
Consulting
Case Studies
Case Study: 6-Day Work Week
Case Study: Building a SaaS Business From the Ground Up
Case Study: Result-Oriented Transformation
Case Study: Skynet or Bust
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Leadership
3 Questions to Better Actions
3 Tips for Guerrilla Facilitation
4 Steps to Better Action
A Blind Retrospective
A Comment on Commenting
A List of Books that Made a Difference
A Short List of Unhealthy Beliefs
A Vignette of Kaizen
Agile Isn't Dead, But Your Career Might Be
Agile Isn't Dead, But Your Career Might Be
Agile Transformation in 4 Acts
AI: Use With Care
An Open Letter to the Agile Industry
Are Scrum Masters Worth It?
The Best Money I Spent in 2018
Better Communication for Busy Leaders
Book Review - The No Asshole Rule
A List of Books that Made a Difference
Bounded and Centered
Bringing Conversation to a Point Using ORID
Make Your Next Build vs. Buy Decision Like Fight Club
Technical Leader's Strategic Advantage: Building Self-Managed Teams
Can AI Replace a Scrum Master?
Can You Hard-Boil an Egg?
Can You Hear Me Now?
Case Study - Transforming A Team in Three Months
Change is Hard
Choosing a Tech Stack
How I Cut Development Time to 1/3rd
Cost Is A Constraint, Not A Concern
Crash Course in Constraints
Dear Architects, Do Better
Death to Code Reviews
Deciding Fast and Deciding Slow
Deciding Fast and Deciding Slow
A Developer’s Guide To a Stand-Up That Doesn’t Suck
Developers Working Late
Does Theory of Constraints Make Sense for Software?
Dos and Don’ts for Decision Making
The Dos and Don'ts of Refactoring
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Example of Horizon Planning
Exploiting Opportunity
Fake Deadlines
Freelancers, Contractors, and Agencies, Oh My!
From Strategy to Story
Get Started With Development and Product Metrics
Getting Started With Pomodoro
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the Popular Agile Frameworks
What the Greeks and Romans Can Teach Us About Design
Hacking My Productivity
Hacking Procrastination
High-Performing Team Series - Why Fuss over Teams?
How I Conquered My Inbox
How I Define a Team
How I Set Goals
How Long Should We Meet?
How To Delegate
How to Estimate Anything Quickly
How to Introduce an Activity as a Facilitator
How to Learn What Your Team is Capable of
How To Make Software Development Predictable
HPF - Good vs. Bad Teams
High-Performing Team Series - Why Fuss over Teams?
I Hate Efficiency
I Never Said That!
The Innovation Paradox: The Many Minds of A Leader
Invisible Member
Its a Secret
It’s Always My Last Day
Knowing the Details and Trusting the Team
Make Your Next Build vs. Buy Decision Like Fight Club
How to Learn What Your Team is Capable of
Learning Under Pressure
Making A Case to Your Manager
Managing a Self-Managed Team
Maximize Your Time With Pomodoro
Missing Skill: Facilitation
A Model For High Performing Teams
Running the Name Game
Normalization of Deviance
On Being Better Gardners
On the Front Lines
One Metric to Start
One Tip to Make Feedback Less Terrible
People and System Thinking
Permission to Choose
Piercing The Veil With Failure
Poorly Built Racecars Don't Win
Top Reasons to Try Pair-Programming
Problem, Observation, Solution
Proximity and Change
Quality Last Is a Stupid Strategy
Quick and Effective Delegation for Busy Leaders
The Red Bead Experiment
Refactoring Makes You Happy! Do it!
Release First, Develop Second
Scrum Masters Make People Out of Employees
Seven Weird Lessons From the Fortune 100
Sex, STDs, and Software
A Short List of Unhealthy Beliefs
Six Estimation Techniques
So You Want to be an Architect?
Start Less, Finish More
Stop Doing Things the Hard Way
Strategy and Tactics
Taking a Stance
Taking Two Bites Of an Ice Cream Cone
Tales of Efficiency
Technical Leader's Strategic Advantage: Building Self-Managed Teams
Test or Die
The Addictiveness of Failure
Book Review - The Checklist Manifesto
The Dos and Don'ts of Refactoring
The Life-Changing Magic of Flat Code
The One Remote Person
The Power of Personal Responsibility
The Red Bead Experiment
The Ultimate Guide to Effective Horizon Planning
There Is No Best
Thinking on Theory of Constraints
Three Column Retrospectives Are Killing Your Teams
Three Costly Mistakes of Technical Teams
Three Reasons Scrum May Not Be Working Out For You
Three Things I Wish I Knew as a Developer
Tick-Tock of the Agile Clock
A Tidy Home - A slicing and planning game
Tidying Up Agile
Two Types of Motivation Every Leader Should Know
Two Types of Motivation Every Leader Should Know
Two Underdeveloped Leadership Skills
The Ultimate Guide to Effective Horizon Planning
Unleashing Constraints
We Ain’t Got Time for That
We Are All Balloons in Boxes
Tell Me About Yourself
What Happens After Standup?
What Makes Good Teams Great
What Might We Learn From Parler?
What the Greeks and Romans Can Teach Us About Design
When Abandoning Code Reviews Leads to Better Results
When Flow-State is Dangerous
When is Done, Done? ⏲
When It Comes to Knowledge Transfer
When Performance Matters
When to Break the Rules
When to Stop Work
When You're Asked to Help Someone
When You're Asked to Help Someone
My Love Affair With “Tell, Don’t Ask”
Work Early to Work Remote
Some Work From Home Tips
WTF Meeting
You're Agile, Now What?
Newsletters
I got dirt under my nails from my digital garden
The 5-Minute Rule ⏰
The story of the Mai Tai 🍹
Odds 'n Ends
Digital Gardens
Product Management
Can You Go Too Far With Your Product?
Estimate Value Not Complexity
Features and Gambling
Feature Soup
For Sale: Software, Never Used
Get People on the Same Page in Under a Minute
Getting Started Using the RICE Prioritization Method
Getting Started With the Lean Canvas
The Hardest Question
How To Break Work Down
Magic Quadrants in Product Development
Make One Small Adjustment to Your Roadmaps
On the Half-life of Enthusiasm
Prioritizing for Feedback
Project Manager -> Product Owner
The Quick and the Dead of Prioritization
Scoping Technique - Impact Mapping
So You Want To Launch a Product
Stop Planning and Start Learning
The Biggest Reason Product Owners Fail
The Shapes of User Stories
What is the Project Timeline
What Almost Every Example of User Stories Gets Wrong
Why I Killed Two Products
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AI Slop
AI Agent Setup
Marketing Strategy Ideas
Reko Day TODO
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Podcasts
Dev Journey - From One Extreme to the Next
Develomentor Podcast - Agile Coach and Freelance Consultant
Lean Change - Living Through a Safe Rollout
This is Retrospective Facilitation - Becoming a Retrospective Facilitator
Talks
Become a Senior in 2 Years
Don't Start Work, Start Teams
How To Introduce TDD Even If You Don't Code
How to Test a Ball of Mud
Learning Under Pressure - Scala in a Hurry
Tune Up Your Stand-Up
WIP Into Shape
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2026 Goals
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Starting Condition
2 hives, both italian
Goals
6 hives
2 Italian
4 Carniolan
New location
Take some medium supers and turn into insulators