Navigating Your Career
in the Age of AI:
Agile Thinking, Human Judgement, Intentional Choices
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Coaching
AI is moving fast and changing the career landscape. If you feel overwhelmed and are searching for a more intentional career strategy, consider a one-on-one coaching session. I can help you figure out what it means for your work, your team, your life, and what to actually do about it. Visit the coaching page.
Speaking & Media
From Harvard Business School to national agile conferences and podcasts, Amber brings hard-won expertise in product strategy, intentional living, and building teams that thrive — and she makes it accessible, practical, and genuinely engaging for any audience. If you’re looking for a speaker who can connect the dots between great software, great teams, and a great life, let’s talk.
Agile Discovery & Delivery
What if the same principles that the world’s best software teams use to build great products could help you build a better life? Agile Discovery & Delivery is written for the people who work alongside software teams like sales, marketing, executives, support, and anyone new to engineering. You’ll walk away drawing your own conclusions about how these principles apply to your work and your life, because the connections are impossible to miss. No coding or technical knowledge required.
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Slow Productivity by Cal Newport: Good Reminder, Not As Good as Deep Work
In Slow Productivity Newport says that our current definition of productivity is broken. Busyness has become a proxy for actual effort, and that history’s most creative and impactful people worked very differently than we do today. I buy into this premise completely. Newport is one of the clearest thinkers writing about work and attention right now, and I always appreciate his thoughts. Here’s a review about what I found valuable and perhaps not as valuable.
Why I Keep Starting New Things in Retirement (And Why You Should Too)
The truth about retirement is, I’m still figuring out which challenges belong in my days and which problems I really want to solve. I’m still learning what it means to do hard things by choice rather than by obligation and how to find the right balance between the ebb of rest and the flow of something hard that I think matters. Here’s what I’ve figured out so far.
The Best Part of Our Viking Rhine Trip Was After the Boat: Switzerland, Lake Como & Milan
Our extension, which went from Basel through the Swiss Alps by the scenic Bernina Express train, two nights in St. Moritz, another scenic train into Italy, a stop at Lake Como, and two nights in Milan, was fantastic. It had everything the river cruise sometimes lacked: free time, fitness centers, beautiful hotels, and the feeling that the pace was ours to explore. Let me tell you how our post-extension to Switzerland and Italy went.
About Amber
Amber Field writes about the art of intentional living. After retiring early at 41, she shares the practices that helped her build a life she loves: from ruthless prioritization, to reinvention, simplicity, serendipity, and travel. The best lessons from the financial independence and business worlds, applied to leveling up your life. If you’re looking for practical, honest writing about building a life that actually fits you, you’re in the right place.
