Career reflections, personal growth, and lessons learned
There is a gap. You have seen it. Maybe you have been it. Maybe you are standing in it right now and you do not even know it. On one side, people who want Ferrari results from a Pinto investment.
The Gap The tools leapt forward. Everything else is still in 2024. Pay structures, management thinking, quality standards, how we define “productive.” All of it stuck. Lagging behind what’s actually possible now. That’s the gap. And we need to talk
At 37, I had a stroke. Then came the MS diagnosis. I went from running a career to relearning how to walk. That’s not the point of this post. The point is what happened next-and what it taught me about
One of the biggest projects I ever worked on was the Microsoft News Center rebuild at WebDevStudios. 38 separate sites. 16 languages. Nearly a decade of content migrated from a proprietary system into WordPress. Enterprise-scale, global reach, zero room for
If I could go back and tell 25-year-old me one thing about this career, it would be this: relationships over everything. Not the tech stack. Not the certifications. Not the latest framework or tool. Not the number of repositories or