The guy sitting across from me at the coffee shop was explaining, with the particular intensity of someone who'd rehearsed this in the shower, why his company had just let go

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