Working dyslexic in a words job
I chose a words job with a brain that charges me a toll on words. Here's what that's actually like, where it started, and the one opinion about it that tends to surprise people.
Thoughts from a former Developer turned PM
The free courses worth finishing: SEO
New series, same rules as the books. Online courses need a "worth finishing" filter even more than books do, because course completion rates are legendarily dire, and because "free course" usually means one of two things: a genuinely free course, or a trailer for a paid one wearing a mortarboard.
Do you read without blinking?
I have a complicated relationship with reading. Always have. I'm dyslexic.
Take the learnings from your worst manager
Nobody forgets their worst manager. You can probably name yours right now. You can probably still recite, with unsettling precision, the exact thing they did that made you close your laptop and stare at the wall.
The leadership books worth finishing
The leadership shelf is the worst shelf in Waterstones. Most of what's on it is one decent idea stretched to 280 pages, wrapped in a cover with a lighthouse on it.
AI made me a developer again. Kind of.
I spent years moving away from building things with my hands.
The most memorable project I ever worked on wasn't a website
Not a website. Not an app. Not anything with a deployment pipeline or a sign-off chain. A beer.