All Posts

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• The Team is the Agent of Work

  That time that somebody wanted me fired.

  18 September 2023

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• Improved 1-1 Note Taking

  In which I adapt some of my note taking to Notion.

  13 September 2023

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• Three Cheers for Release Engineering

  Using beer brewing to talk about Release Engineering and software complexity.

  14 August 2023

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• Curiosity and Impatience

  Two under-valued behaviors that accelerate a team.

  18 July 2023

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• A Little More Yak Trimming

  I did a couple more small things.

  15 July 2023

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• Anchor's Away

  Saying goodbye to Anchor Brewing

  12 July 2023

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• Shaving The Blog Yak

  All the details about the update and clean up this blog's code.

  11 July 2023

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• GoGaRuCo 2013 Storytime

  A video from deep in the archives

  28 June 2023

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• 3X but It's People

  How I think about people when I think about 3X.

  19 June 2022

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• What Brown M&M's Taught Me About Software

  Not all software experience is programming.

  17 January 2022

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• Job Search Journaling with Obsidian - updated

  A small update to my Obsidian Notebook and templates for tracking a job search

  17 September 2021

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• What I Talk About When I Talk About Management

  Agile teams and "management" do not have to be mutually exclusive. Management is essential the long term success of agile teams.

  2 June 2021

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• On Pair Programming

  In which I talk about my experience and ideas on how to build a sustainable pairing environment for your team.

  26 May 2021

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• My Obsidian for a Job Search

  How to use an Obsidian vault that tracks all of the research, interview notes, and status during a job search.

  1 May 2021

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• Cmd-O is My New and Old Friend

  One keystroke for Obsidian search-or-create. This. Is. Awesome.

  1 May 2021

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• History of The Big Pencil

  Whenever someone asks me about the bigpencil.net domain, I get to tell this story.

  21 March 2021

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• Obsidian URLs

  Linking to Obs from other apps is power.

  21 March 2021

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• Note Taking in 1-1's

  1-1s are a special type of note.

  21 March 2021

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• Don't Sleep on the Command Palette

  It takes me a while to learn new commands.

  21 March 2021

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• Community Plugin: Calendar

  The calendar helps you build the daily journal habit.

  21 March 2021

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• Thoughts on Vaults

  When to Vault and when not to.

  21 March 2021

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• Using Links

  Cross note linking that isn't Markdown is OK.

  21 March 2021

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• Using Tags

  Tag it for easier search.

  21 March 2021

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• Core Plugin: Templates

  DRY up your notes.

  21 March 2021

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• Core Plugin: Daily Journal

  The Daily Journal is key to remembering things.

  21 March 2021

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• Driven to Tests

  TDD all the things!

  2 February 2021

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• Start with Retrospectives

  Every team improvement journey starts with a retro.

  30 November 2020

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• The Name Game

  My contribution to this 'what you call me' meme from 2020.

  22 November 2020

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• Introducing The Continuous Delivery Test

  5 November 2020

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• COVID-19-Inspired Meal Planning

  How I experimented to make weekly meal planning work well for our family.

  24 September 2020

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• Improving Standups

  One simple technique to tame your suddenly unwiedly daily standup meeting.

  22 September 2020

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• Foo Fighters 1995

  My Foo Fighters Tweets.

  15 September 2020

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• Drake Your Job

  In which I use math to evaluate if I should switch jobs and which job I should accept.

  3 August 2018

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• Goodbye Chris Cornell

  Remembering my Soundgarden encounter.

  18 May 2017

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• Goodbye Jonathan Demme

  Remembering how Jonathan Demme made me a Talking Heads fan.

  26 April 2017

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• How One Funny Email Almost Changed My Career

  How to write a goodbye email that people remember for years.

  6 October 2016

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• How We XP: Develop & Deploy

  A short summary of how I think about the path of features from development, through Continuous Integration, and into Production.

  1 November 2015

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• Bose Customer Service

  SPOILER ALERT: Sometimes big companies don't suck.

  21 April 2011

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• Kids & Teachable Moments

  In which my son learns about lost luggage.

  24 March 2011