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Fat-tailed distribution of project risk
This weekend, I'm diving into the book "How Big Things Get Done". It explores the concept of a fat-tailed distribution in project outcomes. After…
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Managing strategic work in the whirlwind of small and urgent tasks
As we further adopt Shape Up, I’ve heard numerous teams struggling to understand how to adopt Shape Up in the context of how they currently work. One…
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Forgetting (Book Review)
For most people, forgetting is a cause of anxiety. But forgetting is the brain’s routine for optimizing storage, consolidating thoughts, and building…
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Engineers who navigate optionality (going uphill)
As we think about audacious goals for next year and how to organize teams for success, we’re thinking about the skills required for team flow. If you’re…
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Async work
In software development, synchronous processes are easy to reason about; they are sequential, more deterministic, and require less integration testing…
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The economics of product tradeoffs
The word tradeoff has become ubiquitously overused and misunderstood in product development.
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Your artificial brain
A couple of months ago I stumbled on something which stopped me in my tracks. I realized that the way I consume and retain information and…
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