2025
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Burnout Prevention Through Strategic Reassignment
Nov 25
Corporate burnout prevention programs often miss the point entirely. Instead of addressing workload, unrealistic expectations, or systemic issues, they treat burned-out employees as the problem to be managed or removed from the equation entirely.
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Your Return-to-Office Policy is Killing Your AI Strategy
Sept 9
Organizations struggling to trust and manage remote workers will find themselves completely unprepared for the autonomous nature of AI agents. The same control issues that drive return-to-office mandates will cripple AI adoption.
2022
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Going analog
Mar 16
Sometimes it pays to sever the digital cord and leverage an analog solution. The change in medium will often change your perspective.
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Types of time
Feb 25
What activities do you perform that lead directly to dollars in the bank? If you doubled your focus there, would it double your income?
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The value of repetition
Feb 6
There is value in every coding discipline, but repetition and practice should have a particular emphasis.
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The power of habit
Jan 18
Forming a life-long habit is easy. But it takes discipline to ensure that we form positive habits rather than those born of laziness.
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How do you become an expert?
Jan 14
Don’t let doubt hold you back. Anyone can become an expert by practicing in a field and building experience.
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Prioritizing time for creativity
Jan 4
If you want to be more creative, you need to intentionally prioritize time to practice creativity.
2018
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Release Freeze is Coming
Nov 21
I will not ship any WordPress-related code or updates during the month of December. This is so I can take time to focus on family and 2019 planning. I encourage you to do the same.
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Reflections and Foreshadowing – 2018 Edition
Jan 1
Today begins a new annual tradition: take stock of the past year and set goals for the next. 2017 brought conference talks, a daughter, a php[architect] column and my first book. For 2018: machine learning, a half marathon, a new business and more.