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Weekly Challenge: Pick One Metric That Actually Matters

October 9, 2026 • Career beyond the code

Choosing meaningful business metrics is becoming more important as dashboards, AI tools, and reporting systems give us access to more data than ever before. Modern tools can track almost anything, summarize the…

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Hard-Earned Business Lessons: Glenn Poulos on Selling, Scaling, and Knowing When to Change

October 8, 2026 • Career beyond the code

Success stories often sound much cleaner after the fact. Someone starts a company, grows it, sells it, and moves on to the next opportunity. What usually gets left out are the mistakes,…

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Build a Business Beyond the Code: Glenn Poulos on Buying, Building, and Using AI

October 6, 2026 • Career beyond the code

Building a career beyond the code does not necessarily mean leaving technology behind. Sometimes it means learning how to take technical knowledge and apply it differently. That might involve sales, leadership, consulting,…

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Weekly Challenge: Find Your Reset Before Burnout Takes Over

October 2, 2026 • Career beyond the code

Developers are good at staying with a problem. We stare at code, trace logs, rerun tests, change configurations, and keep digging because somewhere in the back of our minds we know there…

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Developer Burnout and Work-Life Balance: Stop Bringing the Problem Home

October 1, 2026 • Career beyond the code

Developer work-life balance is often treated as a productivity problem. We look for better schedules, better tools, fewer meetings, or another technique for getting more done. However, our second conversation with Gaylen…

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Career Reinvention for Developers: Gaylen A. Wilson on Rebuilding Beyond the Code

September 29, 2026 • Career beyond the code

Career reinvention for developers is usually discussed in terms of learning a new language, moving into leadership, adapting to AI, or finding a new job. Our conversation with Gaylen A. Wilson takes…

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