Archive
All 103 essays, 2010–2026, newest first.
2026 2 essays
2025 14 essays
- Believe the Checkbook
- The Most Expensive Wall in Software
- The Breaker Box Economy
- The Internet's Forgotten Superpower
- The Experience Upload
- The Three Infinity Stones That Can Erase Your Company
- The Server in the Closet
- Tools Create Capacity, Workflows Create Value
- The Age of Citation
- Win the Default, Win the Decade
- Mise en Place for AI Teams
- AI Belongs in Your Dev Pipeline, Not Your Product
- Why Your Enterprise AI Strategy Is Failing
- The Human Side of AI: Giving People Back Their Time
2024 5 essays
2023 14 essays
- Artist for a Day
- From Bricks to Castles
- The Five-Year Cliff
- The Race to the Bottom
- Move Fast and Don't Break Things
- The Mutual Success Plan: Your Sales Organization’s Superpower
- Sales as a Product
- The MEDDPICC Effect
- The Simplicity Paradox
- More Salespeople, More Revenue? Think Again.
- Beyond Time Management: Balancing Energy and Productivity
- The Auto Industry's Cloud Awakening
- Organizational Kintsugi: Turning Brokenness into Resilience
- Rim Rocked: Overcoming a Stalled Career
2022 1 essay
2021 3 essays
2020 10 essays
- Interview: The One Broken Cog Podcast
- Design Thinking for Non-Designers
- PERMA-V: How to Flourish in Work and Life
- PERMA-V: Positive Emotions and Savoring the Best Parts of Life
- Gratitude: An Essential Leadership and Life Skill
- Accelerate Your Career with the Talent Stack
- Take a Break!
- Take a Break! The Trip Report
- Leading in a Crisis: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Focus on Your Circle of Influence
2019 1 essay
2018 2 essays
2016 5 essays
2015 6 essays
2014 11 essays
- CAP Theorem: Revisited
- Be the Worst
- CAP Theorem: Explained
- Assembly uses version X which has a higher version than referenced assembly error
- The Platinum Rule
- Deadlines
- Grit
- Presentation Slides: An Introduction to Amazon Web Services
- Begin With the End in Mind
- Windows Azure IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS
- Wait
2013 17 essays
- Leader-Leader
- Board Games Improve Leadership and Decision Making Skills
- Read Fiction, Be a Better Leader
- Succeeding and Not Failing
- Your Project Needs a Theme
- Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel
- The Trust Equation
- Take the Pessimist's View
- Sync to Paper
- Help Your Team Succeed By Providing Context, Tools, and Opportunities
- Agree Now to Disagree Later
- The specified blob does not exist
- The First Thing You Should Do After A Missed Deadline
- Innovation and Information
- Thank You.
- People
- How Successful People Manage Goals
2012 7 essays
- How to Filter by DateTime in Azure Table Storage
- If Everything is Important, Then Nothing Is
- Work Yourself Out of a Job
- Entity Framework: There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first
- Beware The Second System Effect
- Fixing the "One of the request inputs is out of range error" in Windows Azure
- Using Github as a Syntax Highlighter for Your Blog or Website