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AI Is Powerful. But Implementation Still Requires Project Management. I use AI almost every day. And no, I’m not a bot. It helped me edit this article, to be honest. It helps me structure my articles when I start to lose the plot, as well as making structural recommendations. Not as good as a bonafide…
For the first decade or so of my career, I was an accidental project manager. I worked as a technical writer, and then shifted into educational development. I started designing courses for our local college and learning materials for different audiences. The work was chock full of deadlines, personalities, creative tension, and constant coordination. I…
For someone like me, a Gen Xer who was 18 in 1991, Nirvana has always had a special place in my musical heart. Now I’m nearly 53 and it’s a little different of course. I remember the whole “grunge explosion” and how the pop landscape changed as a few distorted chords took over airwaves and…
Senior project management is not defined by deeper technical expertise, but by the ability to exercise judgment, create clarity, and maintain momentum in conditions of uncertainty. There is a particular lie many project managers absorb early in their careers, often without realizing it. It is the belief that progress equals knowledge, and that seniority is…
The fact is that Hendrix’s Woodstock performance was mid, as the kids say. They should have left it with the original soundtrack album. His myth was secured, 100%. On Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, Jimi Hendrix closes both the festival and the album with a compact, ferocious sequence: “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “Purple…
When reflecting back on some rougher projects I’ve seen over the years, it’s easy to blame a Project Manager, or a team or an organization when things go wrong. But ultimately, it’s none of those. Sometimes, it’s a simple lack of process that can send a team or a project into a painful death spiral. …
There is a moment in most careers when you realize that being agreeable and being effective are not the same thing. Early on, saying yes feels safe. It feels professional. It feels like what “grown up” competent people do. Your boss asks for something, you respond quickly and confidently, and you move on. Then you…
The Big F did not come out of a scene so much as out of a state of mind. They were born from frustration, the kind that only comes after you have already “made it.” Not the romantic broke-band frustration, but the deeper kind that creeps in when success starts to feel like confinement. Endless…
Blockchain: not as easy as it seems (and it didn’t seem easy…) I’ve worked in a lot of startups throughout my career, but nothing prepared me for the pace and intensity of the web3 universe. I came in expecting complexity. New terminology. New tools. A steep learning curve. That part didn’t surprise me. What did…
This record has always been treated like an afterthought. Not the debut, not the myth, just the second one that came out too fast and didn’t change the world. Which feels about right for a band like the New York Dolls. It’s a weird, lopsided album. Half originals, half covers, all of it a bit…