I’ve been quiet on this blog for about three years. When I last wrote here regularly, I was a technical project manager, reading every leadership book I could find, like John Maxwell’s, Ego Is the Enemy or Peopleware trying to figure out how to help my team, how to become someone worth following. It was a good season. Focused. Clear. I knew I needed to become a better tech lead, a better project manager. I was focused at work while listening leadership books on the commute. Then life accelerated. I left that role — and that company, which had a culture that was quietly draining everyone in it — to go back to being a developer. A few months later I watched a demo of ChatGPT. It was December 2022. I was speechless. The people around me weren’t. “It makes mistakes,” they said. “Companies will never accept it – data privacy, IP theft.” And they were right, in the short term. But all I could think was: yet. All of those objections were true yet. And I’ve spent the two and a half years since watching every one of them slowly stop being true. Meanwhile, life kept moving at full…