The Unburdened Stride
Solvitur ambulando at zero hertz: the case for walking with nothing in your ears and nothing to accomplish.
Career and Well-Being
The Envelope and the Backlog
An argument for dancing animals and taking your time.
Software Horticulture
For most of its history, software borrowed its language from construction. Architecture. Blueprints. Foundations. Structural code. The metaphor was accurate for the work as it was actually done…
What Office Space Was Actually Telling You
Office Space opened in theaters on February 19, 1999. It cost about ten million dollars to make and took in roughly twelve point two million, which by studio arithmetic made it a disappointment. Mike…
Your Job Title Is a Floor, Not a Ceiling
Everyone’s afraid of overreaching. Meanwhile, the people getting ahead stopped reading their job descriptions years ago.