Being a software engineer is weird when it comes to family
My team spent years automating £50 million in promotional income. A three-day Sudoku app got me a standing ovation at dinner.
Career
Pressure reveals patterns
Under stress, people fall into a handful of default patterns - and pressure is the fastest way to find out who you’re actually working with.
To be an engineer, you need at least a BSc
Five myths I’ve wrestled with over 20 years in software - degrees, imposter syndrome, burnout, career breaks, and the days you hate coding. None of them are true.
The software engineer career is dead
The ‘AI killed the dev career’ headline is wrong. Here’s why now is actually a great time to start in software.
7 strategies to figure out what you want
Twenty years of trying things - career breaks, travel, study, side projects, therapy - and what each one taught me about the question we all keep asking ourselves.