Husband, Father, Agilist, and Engineering Manager at Braintree/PayPal. I love to talk about Products, People, and Culture.
Chicago, IL
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security engineer: we're going to start moving towards zero trust
developer: oh cool. how does that work
security engineer: [narrows eyes] why do you ask
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There’s something I’ve been playing around with in my head as it relates to “product thinking” and I’m going to try to describe it here, although not fully formed yet.
I think we do a real disservice to “#prodmgmt” when we talk about it only as a process. /1
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The single most fundamental error of the last three decades is to try and design an idealised future state rather than working the evolutionary potential of the here and now, the adjacent possibles - it is impossible to gain consensus in the former, easier in the latter – at Lockeridge, England
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If Your Company Can't Handle Remote Work, You Might Need Better Leadership Habits inc.com/cameron-albert-deitc…
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If 5000 people respond to this tweet with #LincolnLeaks, we'll release @DonaldJTrumpJr's speech. 🏴☠️
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Software development is jazz, not an orchestra.
Leadership in a jazz band is about filling the gaps, keeping tempo, listening to what people are riffing on and helping everyone shine.
It requires adaptation, not enforcing a direction.
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If the thing that stands
between you and a better answer
is rules,
break the rules.
#leadership
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If you hire "the best" and a year later they're "not meeting expectations", wouldn't you wonder, "What did we do to them?"
#leadership
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Coercing people into commitments then blaming them for not meeting those commitments is abuse. period. ~@estherderby
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So there's this thing where in agile where people try to get rid of roles to have everyone be maximally capable. This is a great way of generating optionality. /1
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Data-Driven Coaching: Balance these six performance dimensions continuously. Anticipate (& accept) that pushing any one of these better might impact another adversely & make trades. Discuss as a team what "Too Much" impact might be & early warning signs you are approaching that.
Mike Lutton retweeted
Just got a text from my mom about my dad's insulin prescriptions. The prescription company called to inform them that the 90-day supply of Levemir, one of two insulins he takes, went from $95 to $946. Un-fucking-believable.
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Re documentation. I have only 2 criteria: (1) Will anybody ever read it? [usually, the answer is "no"], and (2) Will it stay fresh? (is it changed the instant it becomes wrong or obsolete?) [again, the answer is usually "no."]. If you can't answer yes to both, don't write it.
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If you’re filing your taxes and got no refund, just remember: republicans gave the super rich and big business $1.5 trillion in tax cuts. That’s where your refund went.
U.S. banks notched combined profits of $236.7 billion for 2018, a record haul boosted by tax-law changes on.wsj.com/2SSnhs9
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Stop leading by example🛑! @Dropbox tech lead discusses how this oft-given advice resulted in unhappy team members, his own burnout, and a drop in productivity. bit.ly/2GYdUzK
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Fantastic thread for software engineers; we see Normalization of Deviance all the time. Annoying error messages that have always been part of build log? Yup. Console errors when loading a web page? That too. – at Colorado, USA
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