Why I Finally Sat Down and Learned This Properly I was pair programming with a senior dev on my team — she was cleaning up a React component while I watched. In about 30 seconds she had renamed a variable across the file, moved a block of code three places down, deleted four lines of … Read more
The Problem: You’re Reaching for Your Mouse Way Too Often The mouse grab is the productivity killer nobody talks about. Every time your hand leaves the keyboard mid-thought — to click a file in the explorer, to position your cursor three lines up, to right-click and find “Go to Definition” — you’re paying a cognitive … Read more
My LinkedIn Feed Became Unusable — So I Did Something About It The thing that finally broke me wasn’t a single post — it was opening LinkedIn on a Tuesday morning and scrolling for three full minutes without seeing a single piece of content related to my actual industry. What I got instead: a founder … Read more
What This Setup Does and Whether It’s Still Working ## What This Setup Does and Whether It’s Still Working **Skip the context?** The filter pack is in [this GitHub gist](#) — copy-paste ready, no setup explanation needed. — Running this for a few weeks, my rough estimate is that visible posts per scroll drop from … Read more
The Moment I Realized I Was the Problem The bottleneck was me. Not my tech stack, not my contractors, not the fact that we were pre-Series A with a skeleton crew. Every single slowdown in the product traced back to one person: me sitting on something. A PR would go stale because I hadn’t reviewed … Read more
Red Flag/Green Flag: Quick Summary Box for workshop papers from conferences like NeurIPS and ICML, 2026 admissions committees have been giving them a closer look. The bottom line? They can be both a blessing and a curse on your PhD application. First off, green flags include papers that are transparently listed on your CV. Make … Read more
The Real Problem With Picking a Kanban Tool for Your Team You don’t have a discovery problem. There are easily a dozen well-marketed Kanban tools ranked in every “best of” list, each with a polished landing page, a comparison table that conveniently wins every column, and a 14-day trial that requires a credit card. The … Read more
Introduction I’ll tell you straight up—running volunteer teams without burning a hole in your pocket can be a wild ride, especially as we hit 2026. I’ve spent countless nights strategizing efficient ways to juggle projects with zero budget. It’s a kind of dance between optimism and sheer necessity. Many of us leading these teams do … Read more
Why I Stopped Recommending Asana to Nonprofits The Moment I Knew Asana Wasn’t Built for This The thing that broke it for me was Gantt charts — or rather, Asana quietly locking timeline view behind a paid plan. I was helping a small animal rescue org map out their summer adoption event schedule across four … Read more
Why I Needed a New Project Management Tool The Challenges of Managing Projects in a Non-Profit Environment Managing projects in a non-profit setting presents challenges that differ significantly from the start-up or corporate world. A common hurdle I faced was juggling numerous small projects with limited staff and budget. Resources are almost always tight, and … Read more