Exploring mindful leadership, personal growth, and healthy living to inspire positivity and human connection.
Leadership isn’t about your professional title. It’s about how you show up and how you create the space for people to do their best work. Some of the most impactful leaders don't need titles; they lead through influence, by coaching, questioning, and supporting others to grow.
Grace can mean different things to different people. For me, it’s about moving through life with poise, thoughtfulness, and emotional presence. It’s not about being polished or perfect, but about being self-aware, open, and intentional. Over the past few years, I’ve returned to these principles as a guide through uncertainty, to build trust, and to lead with care.
My primary goal as a leader is to help teams continuously learn and grow. For teams to succeed, it is crucial to establish a culture of trust and psychological safety; retrospectives are one of the most powerful tools to accomplish this.
Confidence and humility, often seen as opposing traits, play a pivotal role in personal and professional growth. Confident humility is a blend of self-assurance and modesty that allows us to navigate the delicate balance between overconfidence and doubt.
Everyone is angry, the right, the left, the middle, all of us. We are split based on politics, race, ethnicity, gender identity, religion, age, ability, social class, and culture.
Living in confined areas with friends and families during a global pandemic feels surreal. The reality of this situation can make it difficult to find reasons to be thankful.
A recent tweet from Scott Tolinski was an incentive to start a practice that I have been contemplating for far too long. My typical routine was up at dawn with a cup of coffee and some light reading.
An interview with Jason Fried describing backlogs as piles of guilt inspired me to look closer at his viewpoint. With a little research, I found Chapter 7: Bets, Not Backlogs of the Shape Up book.
We all have the choice to determine if the glass is half-full or half-empty. Based on how the brain is wired, half-empty is much easier to recognize and focus on.
You may be wondering what I mean by find your spine. I'm just referring to a model called the "Spine Model" that was discussed on Episode 90 of the Agile for Humans podcast.
When I created this site, I threw it together with PHP. It worked and didn't take long to develop. However, the FTP deployment process was antiquated and setting up an SSL certificate with my host was time-consuming.
Why are we still building user interfaces that are inaccessible? Why do we accept creating significant technical debt to build experiences that simply don’t work for all users?
It’s a short and simple story, really. It starts on a search to find a solution for some cross browser problems with Data URIs. The first stop was the probably don't Base64 SVG article on CSS Tricks and ends on these quick examples.
What does this mean, nudging accessibility into the development process? Accessibility is a challenging task. Standards are murky, supporting technologies vary, and there are far too few experts.