Still Technically Here

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever stood in the rain for forty-five minutes before realizing you were actually holding an umbrella? In this episode, I’m getting honest about the "Gap"—that frustrating space between knowing exactly what tools you have and actually remembering to use them when life gets loud. Whether you’re in a career transition, navigating "the void" between projec...

Send us Fan Mail “If I wasn’t an employee, who was I?” On the Thursday before Thanksgiving at 8 AM, a single calendar notification ended a career that had spanned 18 years. Within minutes, the Slack channels went dark, the access was revoked, and the identity I had spent nearly two decades building as a "tech leader" vanished into a black monitor. In this return episode of Still Technica...

Send us Fan Mail We've all been there: the late-night pull to polish a piece of code, a deck, or a document that’s already 80% finished and shippable. That urge? It’s The Perfectionist’s Loop , and it’s the moment your technical integrity transforms into your team’s biggest leadership bottleneck. In this episode, we expose the enormous economic and psychological costs of chasing that final 20...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever looked at your schedule and seen an unforgiving block of meetings from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.? You're running on 100% utilization, but your high-leverage output is zero. As a leader, constant availability is a vulnerability . Your calendar isn't an itinerary; it's a traffic jam where low-priority requests are blocking your most critical work: strategy, coach...

Send us Fan Mail You were the 10x engineer, now you're drowning in meetings. That urge to dive back into the code? That’s the Two-Body Problem —the agonizing pull between the code you love and the team you lead. When you solve a quick bug for a dopamine hit, you become the biggest bottleneck and introduce organizational technical debt. In this episode, we tackle the context-switching fatigue...

Send us Fan Mail Are you an underrepresented technical leader carrying the crushing weight of the "Only One" in the room? This isn't just Imposter Syndrome ; it's the fear of confirming a bias. In Episode 1, we get candid about the high stakes of representation and the mistakes that feel like identity crises. We're going to get into: The crucial difference between Imposter...

Send us Fan Mail Stop feeling like a fraud wrestling with the chaos. It's time to reclaim your expertise, own your influence, and realize your competence is Still Technically Here . If you're an engineer, architect, or (technical) leader wrestling with the pull between the hands-on execution you love and the high-stakes strategy you must own— hit subscribe. We cut through the organizatio...