The Tools I Actually Use When I Travel for Work
I travel a fair amount for client work. A week in Berlin, two weeks in Lisbon, the occasional sprint in a city I’ve never been to. Over time I’ve gotten weirdly specific about the tools that handle the non-work side of being somewhere new: where to eat, how to get around, which neighbourhoods are worth the limited evening hours I actually have.
Most of what I’ve tried is either bloated (TripAdvisor, I’m looking at you) or too generic to be useful. A while back I found something that changed how I approach a new city.
Read more →What Good Consulting Looks Like in 2025
A lot of consulting still looks the same on the surface: discovery workshops, slide decks, a roadmap, and a promise that things will move faster afterwards. The problem is that modern teams are dealing with a very different reality now. AI is reshaping workflows, cloud costs are under scrutiny, reliability is directly tied to revenue, and product teams are under pressure to ship without creating a bigger mess underneath.
That changes what good consulting should look like.
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