Myths about engineering management harm projects. This makes them annoying and expensive. They also harm people. This makes them dangerous.

The tech industry prides itself on its rationality, and yet is filled with trite slogans that are demonstrably untrue... and further, harmful.

Confronting the assumed use of alcohol forces admission of other issues long swept under the tech industry’s rug.

It’s hard not to miss the sentimental value in the stories of those whose lives were changed by tech’s opportunities. But something is missing.

Questioning claims that are widely accepted in the technology industry.

All of the efforts to get more women into tech will fail as long as the culture assumes that their labor is less valuable.

The indignities unwittingly foisted upon the early operations employee are many and varied.