brain waves

This advice has been rattling around in my head since I heard it on Friday. Don't sneak because if you sneak like you did today, it means you think you're doing the wrong thing. “Transparency” as a company value can sound like a sort of pipe dream. Yet the opposite implies malfeasance and inspires conspiracy… Continue reading don’t sneak

As work and technology become increasingly roboticized (and we’re still far away from The Singularity) the corollary becomes clearer that we need humans for the squishy stuff. Feelings. Communication, management, judgment calls. Except for the stock market, right? Stocks are math! The WallStreetBets hullabaloo exposes the lie that Wall Street is entirely fueled by pure… Continue reading robinhood and gamestop because feelings

I binged The Home Edit on Netflix and I can’t stop thinking about it. My first reaction was that I wished I could run out and spend $$$$ on acrylic boxes at The Container Store. Then I thought, no, maybe the show is bugging me because every other organization expert says buying storage is the… Continue reading the permanence edit

Garbage language is getting some good press, both pro and con. “Garbage language” is a neologism for corporatese terms of art (“term of art” being legalese itself). I’m guessing they don’t have this problem in factories. Or on sales floors. Garbage language is a product of the knowledge economy and reflects the fact that none… Continue reading uncanny valley of the garbage language

By definition the dev team I lead builds things for other people. For the most part that works out pretty well. But sometimes we’ll get an ask and one of my team members will hit a dead end when they need more information, or following up on completed work will show it was never implemented.… Continue reading “they need to care more than you do”