My friend Dave throws a backyard thing every summer, a loose gathering of maybe twenty people around a firepit, and last year somebody brought a guitar. This is a detail worth pausing on.

I was viewing a Jira ticket last Wednesday, one of those mid-afternoon maintenance moments where you're toggling a status field from "In Progress" to "In Review" and

My colleague Todd spent eleven months studying for a project management certification. I know this because he mentioned it approximately once a week for most of those eleven months, and I don'

There is a thing my friend Darren does when he looks at something I have built. He tilts his head slightly to the left, just slightly, the way you might tilt your head

So my colleague Shelley sends me a Slack message on a Wednesday afternoon, something about a support ticket he can’t find, and I watch myself do something I’ve never done before: