A running notebook of short reflections, links, and longer essays about engineering leadership, product, and work culture. Some posts are imported from LinkedIn, and kept here as a personal archive.
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🧱🏡🧱 LinkedIn is becoming more and more of a walled garden. While you own the data you post here, LinkedIn makes it quite hard to access it in any way other than browsing their site. That doesn’t …
For years I’ve been publishing on LinkedIn. And for years I’ve had the same discomfort: it’s my content, but it lives in someone else’s garden. That’s why initially I liked …
I can’t really understand the obsession with “protecting developers” and preventing them from speaking with clients. It’s a mix of infantilising and applying a …
Since joining Worksome, I have been engaged in intense experimentation with (agentic) AI. My usage pattern of models in Cursor shows it: from early curiosity to “all-in” when the models …
Excellent tips for tech job seekers from Will. This is the way I’d recommend approaching both looking for a job and keeping an eye on the market. I’d add a few more tips: Keep an eye on …
🪄AI isn’t replacing people, it’s freeing them to do more meaningful work. At Worksome’s Product Innovation Webinar on November 13, I’ll be talking about “The Art of Possibility”, …
🤬You might be outraged at the wrong thing about AI The problem isn’t “AI”, in general. The problem, as with most tools, is how we use it. Too many people treat AI as a peer—an equal …
Frustrated your team won’t change? The solution starts in the mirror 🪞We’ve all been there: you want either to change or start a new behaviour. Maybe to be more proactive, more …
The most overlooked professional skill that you can start practicing today: curiosity 🧐In a world that rewards quick answers and surface-level knowledge, deep curiosity is a superpower. It’s what …
These thoughts from Sam have resonated with me - especially the bit about the uncertain world. That’s a problem I’m loving to learn more about with Worksome (and hopefully contribute to a …