In case of fire, break glass then pull down. How easy something is to achieve should be inversely proportional to its importance. Pulling a fire alarm takes two steps, verifying…
Design systems. There’s no shortage of articles out there detailing the what, how, and why. I’ll skip a retread in favor of some observations, now that we’re a few years…
We’re wired as consultants to be fixers, much to the dismay of our friends and family whose venting sessions quickly become unsolicited suggestion parades. Universally, that unsolicited part renders the rest of…
Expertise is comfort in the unknown. For software developers, that usually means reaching for the most important tool in their belt: “I’m not sure, I’ll get back to you.” As…
Data experts and practitioners in pattern matching (think analysts, data scientists, engineers, statisticians, and consultants) tend to have an immense amount of siloed intellectual property. It lives in shared drives,…