Rachel left after less than a year. It wasn't her fault. She joined a growing company as a senior leader with a track record of building teams and delivering results. The company had momentum. The team was shipping. Leadership seemed aligned.

Jack is one of the brightest engineers on the team. He delivers when others can't. He goes the extra mile. Other engineers look up to him and executives seem to love him. There's just one problem... You don't like Jack.

I've done this dance enough times now to spot the pattern. Forms asking for exact dates from years back, hunting for documents you swore you saved somewhere, that familiar anxiety when your work history looks messier on paper than it felt living through it.

I can picture myself in a team meeting or a 1:1, bringing this up - and yes, I’m spoiling the article a bit - "Asking someone to review your work isn’t a favor. It’s part of the job. It’s literally in their job description".

Windows machines. The gift and the curse of this world. And for the record, I've been using Macs for the past ten years, so what follows might just be a Windows problem or... who knows.

Based on the git log, it’s been about six or seven months since I moved this blog over to Eleventy. I did take notes at the time and even started drafting a post about it, but then life happened. Things shifted, priorities changed, and that early draft is probably lost for good now.

As we step into February, we're faced with a blank canvas for the next thirty days. However, let's reflect on January first.

January is ending and I already started experimenting a bit to work on this year’s themes, and more specifically on the physical and mental health area. How?

End of the year 2023, an opportunity to take a look at the highlights. It was an interesting year, sometimes a mojo rollercoaster, but productive!

The Bait You find yourself on a call with three people on a Wednesday afternoon.