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14 min

Do It Wrong First

Somewhere in your organization there is a slide that says do it right the first time to save costs. I have sat in the room where that slide goes up. It always gets nods. It is the kind of sentence nobody can argue with, because arguing with it sounds like …

10 min

It's OK to Get Lucky

I couldn't write this post. I'd tried three or four times. I knew there was something I needed to say about feedback and track records and the way both of those quietly poison each other, but every draft came out either smug or evasive. So I did something I'd been …

7 min

The Ground Is Moving

Here's How One Engineer Is Walking on It I want to be upfront about what this post is and isn't. It isn't a list of five things you should do to stay relevant in the age of AI. I've read plenty of those, and I've tried to write one myself …