Karell Ste-Marie

This week: stop being useful in the wrong way

Two Serious CTO videos on the implementer trap, impact, and solving the right problems.

Jun 26, 2026

The Motivation Scam That Makes Dev Teams Worse

Jun 12, 2026

The NoSQL Lie That Keeps Developers Overbuilding — You Don't Need NoSQL

Jun 5, 2026

Tactical Incompetence: How to Avoid Low Value Tasks Without Getting Fired Today

May 29, 2026

Why Senior Devs Keep Shipping Slow

May 9, 2026

I need your help with something

Apr 28, 2026

The Cost of 100% Availability: How Over-Engineering Is Killing Your Startup’s Velocity

Apr 11, 2026

The Serious CTO: You’re Not a Developer. You’re a Factory Worker.

Apr 3, 2026

The Serious CTO: I Used Algorithm Interviews for Years. They Don't Work.

Mar 27, 2026

The Serious CTO 2026-03-20

Mar 20, 2026

The Serious CTO 2026-03-13

Mar 13, 2026

The Serious CTO 2026-03-06

Mar 6, 2026

Handling Burnout Without Quitting Your Career

Feb 20, 2026

Why Bad Code Gets Rewarded (and Kills Careers)

Feb 12, 2026

The Architecture of Career Atrophy

Feb 5, 2026

The Unwritten Rules of Developer Etiquette

Feb 1, 2026

The Socio-Technical Synthesis

A Lead Researcher’s Comprehensive Framework for Engineering Culture

Jan 30, 2026

The Twelve Commandments of the Serious CTO

Jan 22, 2026

AI Coding Assistants

Not The Silver Bullet

Jan 16, 2026

Why Your "10 Frustrations" List Is Killing Your Career

and what to do

Jan 13, 2026

Being “Helpful” Is Why Your Dev Career Is Stuck

With The Research

Jan 11, 2026

You've seen the 5 mistakes. Here's how to fix them permanently.

Dec 21, 2025

Mistake #5: You have no receipts (and it's costing you promotions)

Dec 20, 2025

Mistake #4: You're sacrificing yourself (and it's killing your career)

Dec 19, 2025

Mistake #3: Your work is invisible (because you don't speak business)

Dec 18, 2025