Category: Essays and posts
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Storm with kindness
Tuckman’s stages of group development were difficult enough before. I’ve seen them a number of times and storming still catches me by surprise. The first phase is forming, when you…
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How many engineers does it take?
With deep affection for all my PM friends. Ask a PM: How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? PM: None. I already spun up a multi-agent workflow:…
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Welcome to the Derangement
I’ve been reading Ian McEwan’s novel What We Can Know (2025). It’s the first work of fiction that’s held my attention in several years. The real world has been so…
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Peanut butter and chocolate
In October 2006, Yahoo SVP Brad Garlinghouse wrote an internal memo that became known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto (PBM). … I’ve heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter…
