Have you ever been to a presentation where the person stopped mid-sentence through a very long presentation, trying to catch their place? I think part of it is them trying to decide where to restart but the other part of “why don’t they get what I’m saying”. If you want your message to get across then you need to understand what matters to your audience that will trigger your message to reach them.  We all…

There are so many great stories to be told and heard, but they don’t come in the flashiest of covers, the largest of fanfare or the cutest marketing campaign. You can’t get them on your phone. The corners are dog-eared and scratched. They resonate with a few but not the paying masses. And they are some of the greatest stories that you will ever read, tucked behind the boxes that showcase the new, some of…

It’s not your employer’s responsibility to shape your career, you can move from role to role and job to job and establish yourself as someone that can accomplish things, get the job down and make it happen. They can provide you with training. They can provide you with opportunities. They can provide you with suggested. But at the end of the day, they cannot shape the course and direction of your career – only you…

We’ve all worked on the bug fix that turned into a hot feature or something we’ve built that ended up being a “bonus feature” for the customer. While recently using the “Low Battery Mode” of my iPhone to conserve my battery power, I came to enjoy my phone running in this mode primarily because I took control when all notifications were sent to me.  That’s right, while conserving power, my phone could last at 20%…

My first article for LifeHack.org – a great site, providing great content on a myriad of subjects.  In this article, I talk about that jump that everyone must take at some point in their career in going from a Developer to a Manager.  It’s odd to try and boil it down to 5 simple points – do this and you’re in but really as everyone knows it is so much harder to do. Nevertheless, I…