Consulting

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  Consultant vs Client

  January 31, 2026
  Life on both sides: Some things I've learned as a client and as a consultant.

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  Writing for Developers and Consultants: Use of Language

  May 2, 2024
  How we use language affects how our audience perceives us. In school teachers and professors taught many of us formal – and strict – rules for writing. Those rules are useful to know, but my point is not that you need to follow them strictly.

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  Writing for Developers and Consultants: Editing

  March 1, 2024
  Editing you own writing is the first step to writing well as a developer, consultant, or any other form of technical professional.

• We Wish We Could Consult Like Sidney Freedman

  January 29, 2023
  Major Sidney Freedman was often the perfect psychiatrist at the perfect moment – all consultants wish we were as effective as Sidney.

• Do Not Consult Like Col. Flagg

  December 31, 2022
  Consultants get a lot of good tactical advice. But if we take things too far we are only slightly less clueless than Flagg.

• Consult like Father Mulcahy

  November 23, 2022
  Balancing the ideal and the practical is one of the challenges in consulting. Try to find Father Mulcahy's balance.