Leaning into Weakness
My management style has evolved a lot over the years, but one constant I’ve kept from the beginning is to coach the best possible performance out of my players. That seems like an vacuous managemen...
Posts tagged "Life"
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Hate Your Own Work and Ship It Anyway
When talking to members of our team about their projects and taking on more responsibility for their outcomes I will regularly recommend the following:
How to Distribute Roslyn Analyzers via NuGet
Towards the end of 2023 I had some rare downtime and decided to use it to develop a new skill I’ve wanted to learn: leveraging .NET’s impressive Roslyn Compiler Platform to help Akka.NET users be m...
Internal vs. External Accountabilities
One of the concepts that’s commonplace on software development Twitter / Reddit et al is the notion that management is ultimately responsible for everything that’s done by their employees - i.e. th...
Why Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Come True
In the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections in the United States many conservative leaders, disappointed with the election results, blamed their poor showing on mail-in voting laws in key states:
On Generational Thinking
Three weeks to the day my wife and I welcomed our daughter to the world and ascended to parenthood.
A Eulogy: the Tenacious Pursuit of Happiness
On Tuesday, January 5th 2021 my grandfather, James Chester Roush, passed away in his retirement community in San Diego, California, peacefully in his sleep. He was 96 years old. He was a World War ...
You Have to Have Skin in the Game
Periodically I receive inquiries from people in the startup community who are exploring an idea or want an estimate on how expensive this particular idea may be to implement - as is common in the e...
It's Just Not a Big Deal
In my professional life, I’ve actively conditioned myself to tolerate and accept risks when necessary. Risk tolerance is something that can be learned and taught. But risk tolerance is fundamentall...
The High Price of Comfort
Chief among the values prized by fellow millennials is comfort. It’s reflected in our more casual dress and our increasing preference for impersonal forms of communication, such as text or Slack. O...
What We Leave Behind
It was roughly a year ago this week that I fled California in pursuit of greener economic pastures. I came to Texas an economic refugee; despite running a successful business in California for a nu...