2 years. For most tech companies, that’s the expected median tenure for a software engineer (Forbes). If you’re an engineering leader, having that high turnover means a lot of your corporate knowledge leaves each year. Your managers are also constantly on a hiring treadmill to maintain equilibrium, even more so if you’re also trying to expand. We can do a heck of…
Change isn’t fun, but it’s a part of life. I’ve been in a reflective mood the last few weeks. I’ve gotten a flood of kind messages (which I’ve deeply appreciated) as well as interesting offers to chat from other founders and recruiters. I’ve been eager to provide reference letters and referrals to those I worked who are searching for their next opportunity.…
It’s July, and you’ve still got a few months of Summer left, and you’re working on checking off those checkboxes. First watermelon? Check! Off bug spay? Of course. Enjoying sitting on your truck or hatch back tailgate at the beach with just enough of a breeze to make the heat bearable? You betcha. I always find the longer days of Summer lend…
I know many of us haven’t been in a theater for a while, so I wanted to write this short missive about the underappreciated world of theater sound before my next product design post drops. If this sort of technical nerdery isn’t your thing, I get it. Expect the next post on product development in your inbox next week. In the early…
It was 2013. We were watching videos of the Harlem Shake, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories just came out (and signalled when I was OK admitting EDM was my preferred style of music), and I was in a startup incubator in Fredericton, New Brunswick. I was part of the founding team for a parking app that was going to be the best…
Welcome to the third one of these, I’m excited to keep sharing cool things I’m finding that help with my work and hobbies. Let’s go! TinaCMS is a cool NodeJS-powered Markdown visual editor for websites, that also powers forestry.io. Canada crossed 3.5% vaccinated today (Feb 28), and the speed does seem to be accelerating, but it’s still got a long way to go if…
Earlier last year I wrote an in-depth review of Fonus Mobile, after having been given early access to the new mobile service reseller. I figured it was time to check back in on how the experience has been, and what’s changed since I first reviewed it last year. A New SIM Not long after I wrote my previous review, my SIM card…
Welcome back to the second time I’m doing this (you should subscribe)! Here’s the cool stuff I encountered last week, starting with some shameless self-promotion! As you might know, I like weird tech, and one amazing source of that is Cold War-era technology. I started a new site called ColdWar.tech, along with social accounts on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. In doing so, I realized just how…