We’re all just playing pretend — As kids, we assume grown ups have everything figured out. After all, they walk around with their insurance cards, mortgage payments, and propensities for fine wine. (Did I mention they also like to use fancy words?) Plus, you know, they somehow managed to keep us alive long enough to feed…

Ask yourself this question first — Whenever I chat with people who want to make the leap into tech, I tend to hear the same question: “How do I find a job in tech?” This makes sense. After all, whenever we search Google or ask Alexa for advice, we typically start our question with: “How do…

It can change your life, too. — When I graduated college back in 2011, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. What I did know is that I wanted to figure things out on my own. So, I did what any newly minted college grad does — I…

They had it coming… — I climb out of the mess of covers keeping me in bed, stumble into the bathroom, and sit down for my “morning conference call.” While wiping the crust out of my eyes, I pull up my phone and inject internet goodness straight into my veins. I start scrolling and immediately…

These will make your personal and professional life much easier — In today’s world of remote working and work/life imbalance, communication is more important than ever. Whether we’re joining our daily Microsoft Teams call with co-workers or hopping on a Zoom happy hour with friends, we’re desperate to connect with others while being heard and understood. Even before a worldwide pandemic…

Ask yourself this question every time you open your mouth — In case you couldn’t tell by my profile picture I am, in fact, a white guy and like most of us, I have a lot of opinions. Naturally, I have opinions about owning homes (I don’t own one yet) and education (I’m not a teacher) and of course I have…

Blah Blah Blockchain Blah Blah — Clean my apartment. FaceTime my parents. Try CrossFit. Even once. Read Infinite Jest unironically. Watch every episode of Seinfeld. Take an MBA course taught by Elizabeth Holmes. Clean every bathroom stall at Mar-a-Lago. Twice. Run a 5K while sipping Malört through a CamelBak. Listen to the entirety of The Joe…

An argument for simplifying even more — If you work in the tech industry long enough, you inevitably here the term “minimum viable product,” or MVP for short. Hell, if you’ve seen an episode of Silicon Valley, you’ve probably stumbled across these three words without realizing it. Like most things in tech or business, they sound way…

We live in a very different time than Hemingway — It’s a wild time to be a writer. Thanks to the internet, power has shifted from the few to the many and we no longer have to jump through the same hoops previous writers faced. Gone are the days where your only option to jumpstart your writing career was to…