Happy Friday,Sometimes, someone telling you about a book is better than reading it. Sometimes. In my case, several years ago, a Scrum Master had recently finished the book "When" by Daniel Pink and told me all about it, and his summary has stuck with...

Happy Friday,I'm a fan of rituals and habits. There is comfort in knowing that you have something reliable that works. The tough thing is building rituals and knowing that they're effective. So I'll give a few tried and tested examples here.Checklist...

Happy Friday,At the bottom of this newsletter is a link to one of my recent YouTube videos where I'm working on some hives. If you go to a channel, you'll see a very short follow-up video showing the aftermath.You can say a lot about what makes a gre...

Happy Friday!My wife is returning to work after a 10-year break. She is a natural worrier and planner, so the task of getting a job was not easy for her mentally. Practically speaking, she got the first job she applied for.Her worry got bad enough th...

Happy Friday!Earlier this week I wrote a post that was seen by over 20,000 people. For me, that is viral. You can check out the original here. I basically pointed out that early in my career, I became convinced that writing code was the least respons...

Happy Friday,I posted on LinkedIn the other day that I was interested in writing little booklets on leadership topics, and that my outline grew way too large. Thankfully, someone helped me pick one to start with, and I spent yesterday morning putting...

Happy Friday,I'm just old enough now that some things I learned early in my career younger people may not know about. This week's email is about one of those topics and it is called bikeshedding.The story goes that a committee was reviewing plans for...

Happy Friday!I've made the mistake of spending more time on LinkedIn and my feed is full of three basic things. One is people talking about basic programming techniques like how to write a loop in TypeScript compared to Javascript. Another is folks t...

Happy Friday,This will be a brief update, as I'm currently in the midst of packing for a week-long trip with the family.I've had a whole bunch of conversations that are in the realm of build vs buy, and I feel that earned a few words in this week's n...

Happy Friday,For those of you who don't know, I keep bees as a hobby. This year, I had some big ambitions with my hives to raise queens for the first time, and wind up with eight or so hives.Things did not go the way I planned.Now, raising queens is...