Blog Archive
Category: Career beyond the code
Building an AI-ready organization requires more than giving employees access to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or another AI platform. Without training, standards, and a clear understanding of where AI belongs, organizations can create…
Weekly Challenge: Pick One Metric That Actually Matters
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…
Hard-Earned Business Lessons: Glenn Poulos on Selling, Scaling, and Knowing When to Change
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,…
Build a Business Beyond the Code: Glenn Poulos on Buying, Building, and Using AI
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,…
Weekly Challenge: Find Your Reset Before Burnout Takes Over
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…
Developer Burnout and Work-Life Balance: Stop Bringing the Problem Home
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…