Blog posts about Mentor Monologue
My top 5 DevOps book recommendations
Five DevOps book recommendations for software engineers and system administrators entering the field.
How you know if you are improving
How to tell whether your learning efforts are actually helping you improve as an engineer.
The three key drivers for making progress
Motivation problems often point to a missing driver: purpose, progress, or people to learn and work with.
What distributed teams can learn from open-source projects
Distributed teams can learn a lot from open-source projects about writing, collaboration, and asynchronous work.
Learning is not a spectator sport
Learning works best when you practice with others, ask questions, and get feedback instead of only consuming content.
Purpose > Productivity
A reflection on moving beyond productivity systems and focusing instead on the purpose behind the work.
It's not Impostor Syndrome
If you're a Junior Engineer and you feel overwhelmed from time to time, I have good news: You don't have Impostor Syndrome.
Mastery is mastery of the basics
Career growth depends less on chasing new tools and more on mastering the fundamentals that never stop mattering.
Don't push harder. Reduce friction.
Team efficiency is less about pushing harder and more about finding and reducing the friction that slows everyone down.
Five skills every junior engineer needs to succeed
Five practical skills junior engineers need to grow beyond basic coding and become effective team members.