On play, leadership, creativity, Women in Tech, and the surprisingly serious business of building a life that feels like yours.
Most Power Apps don't lose users because the process is too hard. They lose them in one tiny moment: the pause. Where am I? What's next? How do I go back without breaking something? Here's how game-inspired HUD navigation fixes that — without a redesign project.
Read the post →We're told to be serious, strategic, efficient. But the most innovative leaders I've met? They play. Here's why that's not a coincidence — and what it says about the future of work.
Being a woman in tech sometimes feels like being a unicorn — rare, occasionally doubted, and always a little bit magical. Here's what six years of conference badges and hard conversations have taught me.
People treat 'company owner' and 'Microsoft MVP' like they belong in different worlds. I live in both at the same time — and I'm here to tell you that's not a contradiction. It's a competitive advantage.
Gamification gets a bad rap because most people do it wrong — points for brushing teeth, streaks for journaling, leaderboards for gym attendance. Here's how to actually use game energy without burning out.
Too many buttons feel like responsibility, not empowerment. When every action looks equally important, users freeze — and adoption quietly dies. Here's how to borrow the 'quest marker' mechanic from games and apply it to Power Apps today.
Most internal apps don't fail with a bang. They fail with a sigh. The 'Scroll of Doom' is a real design problem — and game design has been solving it for decades. Here's how to bring that thinking into Power Apps without a single point or badge.
My laptop is a love letter to every community I've ever been part of. Forty-something stickers, six years of events, and more stories than I can count. Here's what I've learned from collecting them.
The word didn't exist. So I made it up. Here's the story behind the title, the identity, and the slightly unhinged idea that play is serious business — and why I'd make the same bet again.