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This was a strange, hard year.

One of the best things that can happen at a conference is a thing you can't plan for but only hope to encounter: a really good...

After a life-changing journey building the Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight, the difficult decision was made that it's time to wind...

HERE is the full video of the talk!

Yesterday I listened to this podcast with Phil Cousineau because it came up in the dice roll of my driving playlist (I haven’t read the...

You know what I realized?

In November, Ana Hevesi and I published the first version of our Cumulative Culture Theory of Developer Problem-Solving as a preprint,...

Whenever I start a research project, I pull from my fiction-writing toolkit.

For the last three years, I have thought often about why individual-level "explanations" of developers' ability, potential & productivity...

The following is not a blogpost, but rather a direct copy of the text from a post I made on Linkedin today .

I made up this term the other day and frankly, I just liked it so much that I wanted to document it on my blog so I would remember it....

Today I'm giving a talk to the fabulous Bridges Summit .

I recently had reason to remember and re-read this important piece: Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy.

We've been busy.

Note: For me, 2023 was defined by battling through and recovering from severe and life-threatening illness.

I can't stop thinking about this lately.

In the last eight months, I've talked about our Developer Thriving framework with junior developers, with industry analysts, with crowds...

Last month I was lucky to get to go to Monktoberfest for the first time -- and bring Dr.

I recently had the chance to listen to a talk from Dr.

Thrilled (and frankly, exhausted in that great-bone-deep-I-made-something way) that I can now share this with you: the Developer Success...