Category Software

Guiding Principles of Software Teams

What follows is a snapshot of a living document that my teams and I have crafted over several years. It is the guiding principles for writing high-quality software in a...

Category Leadership

What the Lincoln Penny can teach us about leadership

What can the humble Lincoln Penny teach us about leadership? Quite a bit if you know where to look.

Guiding Principles of Software Teams

What follows is a snapshot of a living document that my teams and I have crafted over several years. It is the guiding principles for writing high-quality software in a...

Category Mental Models

Evaluating Mental Models

This post will help you determine if you are applying the right mental model to your problem, and what to do if you are not. What follows is a mental...

Category System Dynamics

Stocks and Flows Notation

As I’ve learned about system dynamics I discovered the concept of stocks and flows. Stocks and Flows are useful for simulating the changes of a population over time and it...

Category Decision Making

Decompose Questions For Better Decisions

I find it helpful to decompose questions into buckets to help my decision making.

Category Teams

Staying Fresh: How teams can adopt tools and technologies.

The goal of this post is to describe a technology evaluation process which my teams use to try quickly, adopt slowly, unwind strategically.

Category Technology

Staying Fresh: How teams can adopt tools and technologies.

The goal of this post is to describe a technology evaluation process which my teams use to try quickly, adopt slowly, unwind strategically.

Category Meetings

Meeting Points

The goal of this game is to make attending, scheduling, and running meetings more efficient by making the attendees and facilitators more mindful of their costs. Costs could be linked...

Category Efficiencies

Meeting Points

The goal of this game is to make attending, scheduling, and running meetings more efficient by making the attendees and facilitators more mindful of their costs. Costs could be linked...

Category JavaScript

Jargon & Slang in JavaScript

Jargon and Slang in Programming Languages “One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it,...

Category Machine Learning

From the 'Male Gaze' to the 'ML Gaze'

The concept of the “male gaze,” as theorized by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey, refers to the way in which the visual arts, particularly cinema, often represent the world from...

Category Biases

From the 'Male Gaze' to the 'ML Gaze'

The concept of the “male gaze,” as theorized by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey, refers to the way in which the visual arts, particularly cinema, often represent the world from...