I struggle with returning to things. That Monday morning after a holiday break is just the worst. There's so much to do. The hours are no longer mine. Time with family? Gone. Time with friends? Gone. Back to doing what someone else wants me to do for a majority of my waking hours. The anxiety that this triggers seems to surprise me eve...

This is part one in a series about the lessons I learned while building Music League for eight years. When I started the journey, it was 2016. I was 25 and lived in Alabama at the time, where mowing the lawn was a year-round job. On those hot summer weekends, I would wake up, get dressed in my lawn-mowing clothes, check my shoes for sc...

A few years ago — eight, to be exact — I started building a web application to use with some friends. Though I didn’t know it at the time, this app would come to be called Music League. It would be used by hundreds of thousands of people at one time or another across 6 continents. We never could get Antarctica... Sounds great, doesn't ...

If you prioritize a destination that is guarded by gatekeepers and you want to make sure that you’re allowed in, then the journey will necessarily consist of appealing to those gatekeepers. If this doesn’t sound enjoyable to you, then you need to prioritize the journey. You may not know the destination yet, but you’ll have fun getting ...

As a software engineer or engineering leader, do you enjoy • trying to predict the unknown unknowns up front when planning a project? • constant questions from others about the status of your team's project? • finishing your day or week feeling like you haven't accomplished anything? • being asked to review a pull request that touches ...