Category: Featured
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Blak and Blu: AI Ethics and The Growing Organizational Intelligence Deficit
What started as a casual catch-up with my friend Mike morphed into something far more illuminating than either of us anticipated. Like most conversations that begin with “How’s life?” we expected the usual pleasantries about family and work. Instead, we found ourselves excavating the philosophical foundations of modern business practice, using AI ethics as our…
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Turning the Job hunt Into a Springboard for New Passion Projects
When I first began exploring new opportunities in the job market, I expected the process to be purely about polishing my resume, sending applications, and preparing for interviews. Instead, it became something much bigger — a personal challenge to prove to myself what I could truly accomplish. Somewhere along the way, I realized I wasn’t…
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Estimation Frustration
Turning a Team’s Hatred of Estimation into a More Productive, Less Stressful Practice If you’ve worked in Scrum for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that estimation is one of the most universally disliked activities in software development. It’s not that people are lazy—it’s that estimating is tricky business. It feels like predicting the…
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Cache 22
How the Observer Design Pattern + Caching Can Turbocharge Your Laravel 12 Apps Introduction: The Cache Conundrum We’ve all been there: your Laravel app is lightning-fast on day one, but as your data grows and user activity spikes, page loads start feeling like they’re stuck in molasses. You add caching to speed things up —…
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Data-Driven Product Decisions: Beyond Basic Analytics
When Numbers Lie… You ever had that moment where you thought you finally cracked the code on product analytics? Your platform is showing massive growth—monthly active users climbing steadily, API calls increasing quarter-over-quarter, and dashboard sessions are through the roof. Everybody is loving the hockey stick charts. Investors are sniffing around for the Series B.…
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How to Actually Measure Scrum Success (It’s Not What You Think)
When executives ask “How do we know if this Scrum thing is working?”, they’re usually bracing for some elaborate new measurement framework. Here’s the twist: you probably don’t need one. This might sound anticlimactic, especially to consultants selling complex measurement dashboards. But there’s psychological genius here: people already resist change, so why pile on unfamiliar…