Coder. Speaker. Writer.

Want a healthy and happy team? Welcome, spot, and resolve conflict.

• February 26th, 2011
• Posted in Recruiting . Startups

The wonderful part of being in an early stage startup is that you get to be a part of a small team, you have a voice, you get to build, and you’re all plugging along towards a common goal of creating something that adds value.  There are great problems to solve and you’re all hi-fiving [ READ MORE ]

SXSW Panel: “That’s Not My Job: Being A Career Generalist”

• February 21st, 2011
• Posted in Conferences

I will be speaking on a panel Saturday March 12th at 5pm.  Click here for additional details: “That’s Not My Job: Being A Career Generalist” [ READ MORE ]

Recruiting for a startup? First figure out who and what you want.

• February 5th, 2011
• Posted in Hiring . Recruiting . Startups

About once a week an email shows up in my inbox with question: “Know any engineers?”  followed by the requisite qualifier: “I’m looking for rockstars/hotshots/insert-ego-boosting-title-here for my startup.”  Of course, I know people even people I’d consider rockstars or hotshots, but I don’t know what you’re looking for and I don’t know if they’d be interested.  What’s [ READ MORE ]