Your next leap as a leader may be one game away. ♟️

Happy FridayIf you've ever watched any of my talks, you'll see that I love games. Not just video games, but card games, board games, and even role-playing games. Well, especially role-playing games.If you aren't sure what role-playing games are, you...

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May 16, 2025
Can you hear me now? 👂

Happy Friday,Around two or three times a year I'll experience an urge to learn a new programming language. Usually, I resist and wait until the feeling passes and I realize learning a new language is not a good use of my time. Well, I fell to that ur...

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May 09, 2025
We just had a reorg, now what?! 😨

Happy Friday,Sometimes you do something you know you shouldn't. For me that means trying out Clojure. If you don't know what Clojure is, it is a LISP with a die-hard following. It is so different than any other language that I'm really having to work...

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May 02, 2025
Missed the talk? Don't worry! 😨

Happy Friday,I used to speak at conferences around 6 times a year. That was before COVID. I always enjoyed speaking at conferences, but it certainly had its downsides. First, the cost of travelling to conferences added up quick. Second, the whole app...

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Apr 11, 2025
Come to my upcoming talk on April 8th! 🤯

Happy Friday!Guess what? I'm doing a talk on April 8th, and I'd love for you to attend! My talk is going to try to tackle how to introduce TDD to a non-technical person.You should attend, it's free!One of the reasons I chose to talk on this subject i...

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Apr 04, 2025
Sensors and Signals 🌡️

Happy Friday,I've been busy switching up some of my writing on my site, which is challenging, and I hope it pays off. My previous strategy was to write frequently about whatever I felt like and hope that would turn into people reading my site, joinin...

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Mar 28, 2025
I'm giving a talk and I'd love you to join!

Happy Friday,This week you'll get a short and sweet email from me.Every so often I do a talk at a conference or for an online group and one of those dates is coming up.On April 8th I'll be giving a talk on how to introduce Test-Driven Development to...

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Mar 21, 2025
Are Self-Managing Teams Worth It Or Just Hype?

Happy Friday!I mentioned in my previous email that I've been reworking my site in preparing for some larger changes. I posted my first new article that is based on my new direction of writing for technical leaders and product managers. My first artic...

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Mar 14, 2025
The Delegation Trap 🐋

Happy Friday!I don't know about you, but I'm busy bouncing between lots of different things this month. A lot of my activities are related to beekeeping, so I'll spare you those details, though I did restructure my ryanlatta.com site to help with SEO...

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Mar 07, 2025