Sometimes I get to appreciate simple joys of others

Thanks @gdinwiddie.bsky.social and the charts I mention from the labor data really show how dismal it is

Hello, I Must Be Going

This is the last issue of my newsletter. Details and parting thoughts inside.…

Should I?

Should I? Staying Human with Tech · February 5, 2026 Did someone forward you this? Subscribe to this newsletter. One question you should always ask before you try out some new software or visit some new website is: Should I? Even people in technology are doing some absolutely crazy…

A Place for Us

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2026 – The Year We Keep Moving Together

If your inbox is like mine, you have been flooded with emails in these first few days of the new year. That’s not my intention. I just want to leave you a suggestion and a preview of things to come. Here are my suggestions for 2026: Keep Stable Ground Keep…

A Glimpse into Remote Work in 2026

I had promised an update on remote work, and now it’s time make good on that promise. Back in September 2025, I had run a survey asking what topics were of most interest to my current readers. The top results: 19% - Post-modern agile (many of my current readers…

The Whiplash of Modern Work

The Whiplash of Modern Work Staying Human with Tech · January 20, 2026 Did someone forward you this? Subscribe to this newsletter. It seems like every week, we feel a type of whiplash at work. I hear the following from my clients and colleagues: One client mentioned…

Setting Waypoints for your Career Trails

Waypoints allow us to mark our journey in our careers Ever look up from your screen during the work day and wonder “What am I doing here?” You’re busy, but not focused. Grinding through your day. You’re not even sure of your goal anymore. You may think,…

Meme says We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests. Franklin D Roosevelt.

Well this one aged well

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Navigate Your Career Like a Trail, Not a Highway I’ve always seen my career as a journey rather than as a collection of “next achievements.” For me, if I’m not learning or contributing where I’m at, it’s...

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I laughed and then wondered who would seriously consider that. Oh the tubes we are in.

That is brilliant!

Purr-fectly pleasant

1000% agree. I feel you have the same issue if you lean too far into async work. I was recently told by a VP at a well-known tech company about the flawed hypothesis around async work: it assumes workers have time to read all the documentation generated. Sometime you just need a conversation.

I might need you to show me how you transcribed all those podcast episodes. I’ve done 100s of interviews on different podcasts and it would be awesome to have my own transcripts

Thanks Michael. That’s kind of you to say

@dianaofportland.bsky.social good to see you here

@michaelrosario.bsky.social starting his talk on AI and agile engineering

Setting Waypoints for your Career Trails Ever look up from your screen during the work day and wonder “What am I doing here?”  You’re busy, but not focused.  Grinding through your day.  You’re not even sure of your goal anymore.  You may thi...

Feeling a little lost in your current job or that next job search? #careertrails

differability.works/setting-wayp...

- The context in which you were first exposed to a topic (math, science, intuition, soft skills) can be somewhere on a spectrum from deep comfort to trauma 📗

- Deciding when to invest in a working relationship to fill in your gaps (on some of the topics above) 📘

Some of the micro-lessons:

- How logic can be used as a weapon vs a relationship builder 📕

Whether you consider yourself technical or not, but you work with people in tech, this podcast episode is worth a listen. 👂

Brilliant episode Andrea Goulet and Ray Myers !!!

www.empathyintech.com/empathy-and-...

Find Career Trails Through Connections and Skip Networking Does attending networking events give you the “ick” feeling?  Me too.  That’s why  I decided not to network early in my career.  Instead, I blazed my own career trail by doing what I always did well: ...

Does the thought of networking make you cringe? Then this may help present some alternatives. #careertrails differability.works/find-career-...

Reflections on Co-writing with a Bot It’s been over a year now since I published The Remote Worker’s Guide to Time Management, which I co-wrote with ChatGPT. Here are some things I learned through the process.

An interesting experiment from a friend @pilarorti.bsky.social - Reflections on Co-writing with a Bot open.substack.com/pub/spiralli...