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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Ruthless Prioritization: Doing Less to Accomplish More
If you have five things on your to do list today, how do you ensure you are as productive as possible? The answer, which is my best suggestion for living the life you want is: delete four of them. That’s not the punchline to a joke, it’s a very effective strategy for getting more of your most important things done and I think of it as ruthless prioritization.
Why Every Technologist, Politician, and, Well, You Needs to Read Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
If you’ve had the sneaking suspicion that the internet is worse than it’s ever been, you’re not imagining it. Over time, your favorite app gets cluttered with ads or a platform you’ve invested years into suddenly locks you out or changes the rules. Cory Doctorow calls it “enshittification,” and his book is the most important tech policy book I’ve ever read.
Why I Unretired (And Why Re-Retiring Was Even Better)
I retired at 41, went back to work as a COO, and quit again four months later. Here is what “unretiring” taught me about the true value of time.
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.
