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From Senior Dev to Crisis Tech Lead: How a High-Stakes Data Migration Redefined My Career

The very basics for technical sales and presales

How high-agency engineers turn trust, credibility, and relationships into visible impact

Why remaining non-commital is cowardly

I get a lot of questions from software developers about consulting and being a consultant. In this post, I talk about the key to being a software consultant

An engineer of record is a professional engineer who seals drawings or other documents for a project. Learn more about their responsibilities.

Investigating public attitudes to Digital ID, UK Government initiatives around digital infrastructure and data, and the potential social impacts and consequences of digital identity prgrammes in the UK.

Starting this research journey with a personal reflection on what brought me here.

Citi and Harness transformed the software delivery process for Citi's 20,000 engineers, slashing release times from days to 7 minutes.

Earthly Lunar is revolutionizing how engineering teams measure and improve their SDLC with universal monitoring that works with every tech stack, m...

For engineering leaders to avoid shallow decisions.

The UK government’s Blueprint for modern digital government sets out an abundant approach to technology in which joined-up, personalised services combine AI with private-sector design principles. But can AI be trusted to deliver this new version of Big Government against a backdrop of domestic auste

This is how you can overcome imposter syndrome in tech - by embracing vulnerability and asking questions.

How well does Apple's Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) model work in practice? This answer was originally answered on Quora by Gloria Lin.

I once heard a programmer call GitHub a graveyard for side projects. Felt kinda unfair to all the folks out there grinding away, making progress day in and day out. But I get it. Getting a project off the ground takes the ability to push forward with something that never seems to fit into your free time. In this post, I share the strategy I have been using to push my side projects forward.

The Blueprint for Digital Government suggests that “people expect government services to provide the same convenience and personalisation that they see in private sector services”. But public and private services exist for different reasons.

I’ll never forget the meeting where “cost optimization” became corporate speak for “let’s fire our architects and hire more construction workers.” A brilliant engineer I’d worked with for years — the…

Stop defining yourself by the tools you use. Learn how to tell your story in a way that connects with other humans, and shows who you truly are.

Accomplishing big things takes a long time, even in the modern world of software. I was reminded of that today when I read Mike Kruzeniski’s post Jony’s Patience. Here’s the crux of it: I doubt that it took 20 years for Ive to come up with the idea for the Watch, or to find the right design for it. For the past two decades, Apple and Ive have been carefully building a company that’s capable of building the Watch. That’s 23 years of finding talent, hiring the right people, building the right teams, developing relationships, investing in skills and technologies, establishing manufacturing and distribution, and proving out the products and business models. Ive’s patience to grow with Apple over the last two decades allows him to design the greatest products in the world today.

On mentorship, junior and senior talent in AI safety, a prototype, and learning from Josh Landes at BlueDot.

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After 12 years of sitting with people through their most honest, tender, and transformational moments, these are some of the truths that have stayed with me. Each one holds a thread of what it means to be human, the struggles we face, the emotions we avoid, and the quiet courage it takes to keep go

Author Henry Oliver discusses the difference between motivation and success, navigating a midlife crisis, and learning from your disagreements

Oli Lewis-Roberts explores the role of connecting with others in leadership, learning and development

The Competitive Advantage of Being Challenged