Digital TransformationFive young developers came to a dim restaurant for career advice, brimming with confidence about microservices and cloud-native everything, and had no idea what was coming. Forty years of IT disasters teach you about Murphy's Law and how fragile everything…
Important PeopleIn 1961 a Cuban family fled Castro with their one-year-old son, traded established careers for minimum-wage jobs in Miami, and that infant grew up to become a cop at nineteen, the youngest Circuit Court judge in Miami-Dade history, a death-penalty…
BloggingFew writers are trained to build websites, and SEO feels like a foreign language layered on top. But without it, even a great blog stays invisible. SEO simply means making your work findable. Here are 22 practical tips that take…
Critical ThinkingNobody wants to hear it: you have been an echo chamber since birth, wired to absorb whatever beliefs surrounded you. You did not choose your first language, religion, or politics; they were installed, and most people never audit the software.…
Social MediaYou open TikTok for a minute and lose an hour, and nearly 1.9 billion people do the same thing daily. Critics say the app runs on shallowness, addiction, and surveillance by design. Whether you use it or quit it, the…
AdviceSeptember 2017: the forecast confirmed Irma was coming straight for my corner of Florida, and we had days to get ready. I had ridden out storms before, but this one's numbers were ugly. Here are seven hard-earned lessons from preparing…
Social MediaYouTube is the largest video platform on earth, and the more I use it the more I grumble that it sucks, and the complaints are not just mine. They run from copyright abuse and censorship to an algorithm that feels…
Artificial IntelligenceThe uncanny valley is that crawl of unease at a face almost human but subtly wrong, named by Masahiro Mori in 1970. Prose does it too: text that nears human quality but misses leaves readers vaguely repelled without knowing why.…
SecurityTesting is the hardest job in most IT departments and the place projects quietly die. After years in operations, the sheer lack of it still stuns me, shipped code that would not run, programs never tested at all. Real testing…
BrandingIn this Business RadioX conversation, I talk through how a book can showcase expertise, build credibility, and tell a story worth telling, for businesses and individuals alike. Drawing on 113+ authored books and 54+ ghostwritten, including two Kindle bestsellers, here…
BrandingYour bio gets about three seconds before someone decides whether you are worth following. Most people waste those seconds describing themselves the way everyone else does. Here are ten tips, drawn from rewriting bios for hundreds of professionals, on what…
Writing LessonsIn interactive fiction the reader stops being a passenger and becomes a co-author, the story branching and reshaping with every decision. It lives where literature meets gaming, and its roots run all the way back to early text adventures. Here…
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