Work isn't inherently valuable. People are. #Agile . (also #UniversalBasicIncome).

"Act as if you are now living in East Germany and Meta/Facebook/Instagram/ WhatsApp is the Stasi. It is.". #laterthanyouthink.

"A project is shipped when the important people at your company believe it is shipped. If you deploy your system, but your manager or VP or CEO is very unhappy with it, you did not ship.". #ship #productmanagement.

"There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence – and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.". #work #consistency #vs #intensity.

"When you happen across one of these four-leaf clovers, you obviously should do it, regardless of whether you consider it Sand (because it's fast) or a Pebble (because it has impact).". #priority #focus #order #batchsize.

"If you're using ChatGPT to augment a specific skill, you'll likely need at least a basic foundation in that skill in order to design effective prompts in the first place.". #ai #gpt #promptengineering #roleplaying.

"You should first create the universe and the jungle and use dependency injection to provide every tree one at a time, then generate the monkey to grab and eat the banana.". #ai #llm #orm #ofc.

"Continuous improvement isn't nearly as important as discontinuous improvement. Creativity is a discontinuity. A creative act breaks with the chain that has come before it. It's not continuous. One never bec. ". #continuousimprovement #creativity #leade….

"I use my intellect, but I don't live there.".

"If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.". #ai #writing #thinking.

"A false proxy is convenient, vivid and unhelpful. It's like asking a programmer how many words per minute they can type. It might be useful to be a fast typist, but it doesn't help you become a great programmer.". #productivity #measurement #proxy.

"The main problem, though, is that creating a PI plan for a quarter, executing it in sprints, and delivering whatever passes tests at the end of the quarter ignores the entire reason for agile product development: unc. ". #agile #dogma #humility #engine….

"In all cases, when there's something the team needs to do or fix, you are considered responsible for making sure it happens.". #management #responsibility #nothing.

"The well-defined 'separate, distinct program modules' covers about half of the suggested benefits of microservices, and we've been able to do that for fifty years.". #softwarenengineering #softwarearchitecture.

"When a person has a mental breakdown and the guards gently restrain them, repeating phrases like 'This isn't between you and me, we care about you, we love you, calm down, let's have a coffee after this,' — well, that is bound to change you.".

"Despite the fact that organizations from the OECD to the IMF have recognized that inequality is itself a brake on economic growth, fostering destructive "rent seeking" (seen today online in the form of enshittificati. ". #economics #models #enshittific….

"What I see happening in real companies is that different teams make different marketing actions on the same users.". #productmanagement #marketing #silos.

"If the problem is one of estimation, then commit to half as much work and see what happens. If you run out of work to do, you can always throw more things on there. If you haven't even tried this, the most obvious thing on the planet, then yo. ". #esti….

"Don't change your story when you're bored, or when your partner is bored, or when your team is bored. Change your story when your accountant is bored.". #leadership #repetition #strategy #repetition.

"Your first thought is what everyone else thinks. Your best thought comes after you've thought long enough to forget what everyone thinks.". #creativity.

"It's worth emphasizing again, though, that just as with heat, a robust concept of time depends on us being computationally bounded observers.". #time #heat #perspective.