Staying Hands-On: Keeping Your Technical Edge in Leadership
I have spent enough time in leadership to know the standard story.
In that version, you start technical. You move into management. You become strategic. If all goes well, you eventually stop touching the technical work except at a safe rhetorical distance. Your value is supposed to migrate upward into vision, people, budgets, and influence.
I understand why that story exists. At some level it is true. An executive who insists on writing production code to prove relevance is usually solving the wrong problem.
What Mentors Get From Mentoring
When people talk about mentorship, they usually focus on what the mentee gets: advice, support, perspective, encouragement, access.
All of that matters. But it's only half the story.
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PlotThing - Story Management and Writing Tool
PlotThing is a comprehensive story management and writing application I'm building. It provides writers with tools to organize their creative work and export directly to publishing formats.
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