title	conference	date
All the things I misunderstood about being a leader	LeadDev New York 2025	2025-10-15
A first-time exec recounts concrete reversals: don’t hand down solutions, define outcomes not features; use the magic question what do you want me to… Talk on
The Upside Of Being Unreasonable	All Things Open 2025	2025-10-12
Asks for I need a half a million dollars then gets refused and keeps chasing a slow hunch, quits a corporate VP job, builds Code TV and a season zero of WebDev… Talk on
The Upside of Being Unreasonable	CityJS London 2025	2025-04-23
Argues that the old devrel playbook is dead and shows how a slow hunch becomes a business: requests $500,000 from leadership, quits a tech executive role end… Talk on
Putting Fun Back into Coding	CascadiaJS 2024	2024-06-19
Organizes a 25‑person, 5‑day sprint dubbed web cohesion week to unify three separate codebases with 13 stakeholders, shipping visible cohesion while working… Talk on
A Plea for Boring Tech	SeattleJS Conf 2023	2023-08-08
Argues that production systems use the most boring reliable tech so teams spend time building features not fighting the stack, citing costly rewrites… Talk on
Seeking vs. Wandering	All Things Open 2022	2022-11-01
Argues that deliberate seeking plus undirected wandering create careers by producing transferable skills and serendipitous opportunities, not by following a… Talk on
How the API-First Ecosystem Made Us All Full-Stack	RenderATL 2022	2022-06-01
Argues that frontend devs can act full‑stack by wiring APIs, not learning every backend discipline: builds a product list that uses the fetch API to call a… Talk on
Prisma "Wow!" Moments	Prisma Day 2021	2021-06-29
A montage of first-time users shows Prisma wired into a small web app in minutes, developers clicking submit and seeing records appear in the database live in… Talk on
How Your Architecture & Infrastructure Can Make or Break Your Team’s Productivity	JSNation Live 2021	2021-06-09
Claim: switching to a JAMstack decoupled front end plus precompiled assets and CDN deploys removes backend gatekeeping, cuts servers and runtime complexity… Talk on
You Belong Here: How to Make Open Source More Open	JSHeroes 2019	2019-04-11
Gatsby makes concrete changes: a code of conduct, open pair programming hours, and accessibility work plus docs treated as a product. Tools built include a… Talk on
Make the Right Thing the Easy Thing: Designing Processes Teams Will Actually Follow	The Lead Developer New York 2018	2018-04-24
IBM inherits a business‑critical micro‑service with a bus factor of one and ends up rewriting it because no one else knows how it works. The talk argues for… Talk on
Building a testing- and quality-driven culture at IBM	Assert(js) 2018	2018-02-22
IBM scales a pull‑request workflow that disallows direct commits, runs automated linters and tests via Travis Jenkins CircleCI plus git hooks (husky) and… Talk on
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