Head First with Darian

You know that person, brilliant, technically, and somehow nobody in the room actually understands what they just built. For a long time in tech, that was completely fine. It's not anymore. In this episode, the first of a new series, I'm talking about why communication just stopped being optional, and it's not because the industry suddenly got nicer. It's because of AI, which might be the last plac...

Content note : this episode briefly touches on domestic abuse. I walked off that stage in New York and knew something had shifted. The mic wasn't working. I had technical issues within the first five minutes. And I belted it from my chest. This episode is the one I've been building toward: what actually happened at Women Who Code, what the room felt like, and the feedback someone gave me afterward...

In episode one I said the Women Who Code talk hadn't started. June 2nd, I'm on a stage in New York City. This episode is what happened in between, how I built the talk, what prep actually looks like when the tech you're talking about won't sit still, and why getting selected still felt like a scam at first.

You know the feeling. Everything's overwhelming. Everything's harsher than it should be. You can't explain it, you just know something's off — and by 3-4pm you're done. It has a name: cognitive overhead. And the reason your system keeps failing isn't you. This episode I'm breaking down the difference between overhead and overload, why most productivity frameworks weren't built for a variable brain...

Two speaking gigs. One podcast. Zero prior experience with any of it. In this first episode I'm talking about what it actually looked like to say yes before I was ready — HomerCon, Women Who Code, and what prep looks like when you're building the plane while you fly it.