gerald-weinberg's personal blog, active from roughly 2010 through 2018, served as a late-career window into how Weinberg selected and reframed his best ideas for a general audience. Rather than producing original long-form argument, Weinberg used the blog to excerpt and distill material from his published books, choosing passages he judged capable of standing alone while encouraging readers to explore the full works.
The blog's topics spanned the range of Weinberg's intellectual interests: consulting, feedback, helping, leadership, listening, managing, problem solving, and teaching. These categories map closely onto his major published works — secrets-of-consulting-1985, more-secrets-of-consulting-2001, becoming-a-technical-leader-1986, and the quality-software-management-framework volumes — suggesting the blog functioned partly as a curated sampler of that body of work.
As a primary source, the blog is valuable for several reasons. The act of selection itself is informative: the passages Weinberg chose to highlight in this late-career context reveal which ideas he considered most durable and most relevant to practitioners in the 2010s. The blog also captures Weinberg's voice in its most accessible register — direct, aphoristic, and often leavened with the self-deprecating humor characteristic of his consulting persona.
The blog belongs to the broader pattern of Weinberg's late-career-teaching-and-self-publishing-2000-2018 phase, which included the move to leanpub, continued involvement with aye-conference, and efforts to make his life's work accessible beyond the community of practitioners who had encountered it in workshops and consulting engagements. The secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com address reflects the informal, reach-broadening spirit of that phase.