Career Growth Articles

Design & UX Jun 19, 2026 • 4 min read

Design Awards Are Great, But They're Not Why I Ship Better Code

I've been doing this for seven years now, building products, shipping features, sitting in design review meetings where someone inevitably brings up "we should enter this for a Dribbble award." And every single time, I have to bite my tongue a little. Not because design recognitio...

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UX Design Career Growth

Design & UX Jun 17, 2026 • 4 min read

The Ego Trap: Why Your Best Code Is Behind You If You Think You've Arrived

I had a moment last month that stuck with me. A junior developer on my team suggested a completely different approach to a state management problem I'd been wrestling with for days. My first instinct? Defend my solution. I'd been writing React for years. I knew the patterns. I'd...

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JavaScript Career Growth

Design & UX Jun 10, 2026 • 5 min read

I've Been Managing Design Wrong, and Here's Why It Took Me Two Roles to Figure It Out

Last month, I sat in a retrospective where our design manager and lead designer had what looked like two completely different conversations about the same problem. One was worried about team burnout and skill gaps. The other was concerned whether we were actually solving for user...

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Startups Career Growth

AI & Machine Learning Jun 6, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I'm Finally Taking Enterprise AI Seriously (And What It Means for Your Career)

Last year, I dismissed ChatGPT in enterprise contexts as "hype for non-technical people." I was that developer who thought real work still meant hand-crafted solutions and sneering at business-friendly AI tools. Then I watched a construction company, literally building physical in...

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Tag: Career Growth

Design Awards Are Great, But They're Not Why I Ship Better Code

The Ego Trap: Why Your Best Code Is Behind You If You Think You've Arrived

I've Been Managing Design Wrong, and Here's Why It Took Me Two Roles to Figure It Out

Why I'm Finally Taking Enterprise AI Seriously (And What It Means for Your Career)