Technical literacy is a 10-part series. Use this page as the table of contents and read the posts in order.

Read the series in order

  1. Why Technical Judgment Is a Learnable Skill
  2. What More Technical Actually Means
  3. Engineering Taste: The Meta-Skill That Compounds Everything
  4. The Debugging Mindset
  5. Why Good Technical People Simplify Aggressively
  6. Why Learning to Code Is the Wrong Goal for Non-Technical People
  7. How Non-Technical People Build Technical Credibility
  8. Developer Empathy Isn't Soft — It's a Technical Advantage
  9. How Non-Engineers Earn Trust With Engineers
  10. Why Technical Literacy Is Now a Leadership Skill

Start with Why Technical Judgment Is a Learnable Skill. If you want the practical diagnostic, jump to Why Technical Literacy Is Now a Leadership Skill.