craftsmanship Archive

10 Leadership Lessons from the 2500 Year Old Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese text written over 2,500 years ago. This ancient work continues revealing modern messages every time I read it, and hopefully convey along to you. My first experience

Why I Crowdsourced My 2013 Performance Review

This year my team’s manager suggested we solicit input for our end-of-year work performance reports. I’m sure there’s copious books and blog articles describing exactly why this is a terrific idea. I only have

Cooking and Coding – Mixing My Passions

I’m reflecting on two of the things that truly define my character: cooking and coding. One I do for pay and the other I do purely for the love of sharing. Both passions have

Tech-Stack Checklist for a Modern Single-Page Web Application

I’m proud to say I’m on the team that last year rebuilt the TripCase mobile client shipped to app stores December of 2012. It’s a big achievement for myself as a programmer, and for the company

Hey App Maker – Your Settings Menu Is All Full of Crazy

It’s the Ubiquitous Gear Icon Did you download an app and tap curiously on the little gear-looking icon and see a page all full of crazy? I sure have. Lots of times. Too many

The Standing Desk Project

Standing desks are something I first heard about from a teammate about eighteen months ago. He mentioned it as a health consideration and I dismissed it as a hipster trendy meme that I couldn’t care less