Making Yourself Fireable — Consulting Without Trapping the Client.
Making Yourself Fireable — Part Five: “Making yourself fireable” sounds like terrible career advice. There is a strange thing about trying to make yourself fireable as a consultant.
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Making Yourself Fireable — Reading Second Order Effects
Making Yourself Fireable — Part Four: “Making yourself fireable” sounds like terrible career advice. What becomes possible when the work no longer depends on you.
Making Yourself Fireable — Reading First Order Effects
Making Yourself Fireable — Part Three: “Making yourself fireable” sounds like terrible career advice. The first signs that work is moving without you.
Making Yourself Fireable — Building an Action Plan
Making Yourself Fireable — Part Two: “Making yourself fireable” sounds like terrible career advice. This is the action plan.
Crypts and Commits: How I'm Working With AI (For Now)
How working with AI coding assistants has even changed how I work with and understand documentation. The Audience I Didn't Know I Had — Part Three.
Crypts and Commits: This Documentation Isn't for You
How working with AI coding assistants has even changed how I work with and understand documentation. The Audience I Didn't Know I Had — Part Two.
Introducing Crypts and Commits
Introducing Crypts and Commits. My framework for working with AI coding assistants. The Audience I Didn't Know I Had — Part One.
Making Yourself Fireable
Making Yourself Fireable — Part One: “Making yourself fireable” sounds like terrible career advice. But I have spent a good part of my career trying to do exactly that.
We Will Get You Through It!
When deadlines become impossible, what I call the "Norfolk and Waypal" approach helps teams name the absurdity, protect their limits, and focus on what matters to get through it.
A Different Kind of Content
Writing With AI — Part Two: Last time, I told you where this loop came from — a year of an AI telling me my architecture ideas were great, a manual workaround that only half worked, and a skill that finally automated the fix. I ended on the sentence I actually said out loud: I called it a content design interview — let's try a different kind of content. This is what happened next.