As I continue to enjoy my time relaxing, recharging, and rebooting during my sabbatical, I came across some wise words by a wizard named Ged about keeping balance in our life...

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2021/10/12/being-and-doing/

Today I mark off an item in my bucket list: I’m taking a one month  sabbatical! This caps 10 years working at Fresh Consulting and also making it through a particularly rough year. I have three simple goals  for this: relax, recharge, and reboot.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/relax-recharge-reboot/

As I’ve continued to grow as a leader and mentor over this past year,  there’s one phrase that surfaced over and over that has taken some effort to comprehend the impact of: “What you permit, you promote…”

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2019/12/26/thoughts-on-leadership-what-you-permit-you-promote/

Finding somebody new can be a really tricky process. Recently I’ve been  through a wave of interviews with various candidate, and I have a  renewed respect for recruiters and HR personnel that handle this process  on a day to day basis. How can you evaluate skill, character, fit, and  so much more in such a short time span? Here is what I’ve started applying to my own evaluations.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2019/02/22/leadership-finding-somebody-new/

While working on Project Moab, we encountered a really interesting, and  nuanced problem that led us to expand our thinking and ultimately guide  how multiple parts of the system operated. It also gave us a fun tool  that I’m applying to other projects as well: Elvis, Bean, and Hedy.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2021/06/01/know-your-user-elvis-bean-hedy/

So here we are, a brand new year and I thought I’d go off on a tangent  and see if I can shock and amaze folks with a few things you may not  know about me…

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/five-random-and-semi-famous-things-you-may-not-know-about-me/

I've been doing a lot of thinking now specifically asking myself, What does leadership look like? What does it mean to be a leader? I still don't have a ton of answers, but I have a few thoughts and something I'm doing more consistently now.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/leadership-thoughts-and-a-tip/

Sometime around now, some 20 years back, I had my first gig as a "professional" coder. A friend of mine put me in contact with somebody  who wanted to allow those that had coding certifications (like a  Microsoft MVP) to build a basic profile, upload the all important  “badge” image they received, and have a nice looking single page  “resume” to share and connect. Maybe I built the first LinkedIn, but I  won’t necessarily claim that [:: smiles ::]. However, I did learn the most important lesson that sticks with me today. It has also been a wild ride in software…

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://dillieodigital.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/20-years-of-code/