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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.

Writing about developer experience, AI tooling, and the communities that make tech worth working in.

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Currently Developer Experience Lead, AI Platform at Paper Compute
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April 15, 2025

Reciprocity Intelligence: A Core Skill for Modern Work

In this second post of my series on giving and taking, I explore why reciprocity intelligence—the ability to navigate giving and receiving effectively—isn’t just nice to have anymore. If you missed the first post, start here.

April 8, 2025

The Giving-Resilience Balance: Beyond Givers and Takers

In today’s workplace, we need both a culture of contribution and the personal strength to thrive independently.

April 7, 2025

Agents vs MCP: Is the AI Hype Shifting?

If you’ve been following AI developments at all over the last year, I’m sure you heard about how autonomous AI agents were the next big thing that was going to change the landscape. You might have also heard names like...

March 31, 2025

Measuring the Impact of Developer Content: Metrics That Matter

Last week, I was chatting with a Developer Advocate at Gitbook, and he asked me what metrics we looked at for docs at OpenSauced. The honest answer is that we didn’t have KPIs or OKRs or metrics that determined our...

March 24, 2025

Common Pitfalls in Developer Content: The 7 Deadly Sins of Developer Documentation

Last week, I wrote about Content Developers Love, and it’s natural to follow that with some of the places where developer content goes wrong. It’s usually not one thing that causes documentation to go wrong; it can be death by...

March 18, 2025

Adding Multiple Authors to my Astro Writing Blog: A Technical Walkthrough

At the end of last year, my brothers and I wrote our first novel together (The Battle for Christmas: Reign of the Nutcrackers). That experience inspired us to continue writing together, starting with a monthly newsletter with short stories. At...

March 17, 2025

Creating Content Developers Love: A Guide to Developer Experience (DX) Content

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been in the middle of conversations about whether or not DevRel belongs in marketing. At the end of the day, I don’t know that it matters if you understand developers. One of the...