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Your Comfort Zone Is Destroying Your Career
The uncomfortable truth about staying relevant in a field that never stops moving
Nov 30
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Michael Lawrence
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Stop Waiting for Perfect
Your Comfort Zone is Killing Your Career
Nov 23
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Michael Lawrence
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Stop Waiting to Feel Like It
Why Motivation is Bullshit
Nov 16
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Michael Lawrence
1
Your Best Work Will Be Ignored
That's the Best Thing That Could Happen
Nov 9
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Michael Lawrence
1
The Grinding Cost Of Context Switching
The Real Reason You End Every Day Feeling Like You Got Nothing Done
Nov 5
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Michael Lawrence
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When Your Obsession Becomes Your Prison
How to Stop Working Yourself Into Complete Isolation
Nov 2
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Michael Lawrence
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October 2025
Stop Waiting for That Promotion—It's Probably Never Coming
The uncomfortable truth about promotions, office politics, and why you need to focus on what you can control
Oct 29
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Michael Lawrence
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Your Legacy Code Isn't the Problem, Your Attitude Is
How I stopped romanticizing rewrites and learned to build software that actually lasts
Oct 26
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Michael Lawrence
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Stop Panicking About Obsolete Skills
You're Learning the Wrong Thing Anyway
Oct 22
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Michael Lawrence
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The Truth About Developer Burnout
You're Not Lazy, You're Just Human
Oct 19
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Michael Lawrence
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You're Not Living Your Life
How mental time travel is stealing the only moment you actually have
Oct 15
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Michael Lawrence
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Stop Being a Meeting Zombie
Why Developers Need to Learn to Say No
Oct 12
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Michael Lawrence
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