No Subject
No Subject There’s little to report this episode. Things go on and on, over and over with just enough variation to keep me awake. Movie at 11. (I still...
A happy madness
A happy madness (1.) ¯_(ツ)_/¯ You wouldn’t know it unless you listened really carefully with a fine toothed comb to all my Internet bilge, but my mind gets...
Are you actually changing?
Are you actually changing? (1.) Improving the way you do software - doing agile, DevOps, or whatever - is about changing. If everything is working fine, you...
Neither urgent, nor important
(1.) Neither urgent, nor important People often ask me to do strategy, craft a big picture story, or give them advice on a large project. In reply, I...
Junk Enterprise Modernization
You can never step in the same digital transformation twice (1.) Junk Enterprise Modernization Getting excited about work has become hard. The struggle is...
A good story adds value to a product
A good story adds value to a product Originally posted on my blog. The more you can spread the narrative, the greater the potential force for your business....
Webinars, whipped cream in a can, the artist oyster diet
We’re all doing webinars now Two months is a long time to not be working. Well, to only do a little work. I’ll be back at work on Monday, and it’s hard to...
Prioritizing design time by durability, not populist beauty
Prioritizing design time by durability, not populist beauty A refinement of the "less is more" tool: Subtract rather than add: this rule must be understood...
One-handed video editing
One-handed video editing While on paternity leave, making videos is an easy, high value product to make. So I've made a lot! The videos so far: Vignettes on...
One minute videos on digital transformation
One minute videos on digital transformation I’ve been dying to work on some project while on paternity leave. (Yeah, yeah, I know!) Small videos are a good...
There is no six page memo in remote schooling
There is no six page memo in remote schooling There’s so much hidden skill in working with online tools for school. My kids and my mom show me this each day...
Re-living the present before fantasizing about re-living the past
Re-living the present before fantasizing about re-living the past I fantasize about how I could have lived my past days better, been happier and gotten...
Start with Hunter Thompson by reading Joan Didion first
Starting in on Hunter Thompson Someone asked me the best way to start in on Hunter Thompson, what book to read. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is his...
Nothing to give up on
Nothing to give up on Most of how people tell me to fix myself is to give up, or give into things. I’m not calibrated well to do that. At this point in my...
Current status, a poem
Current status, a poem I don’t know, man. Whatever. (Just click Publish.) Original programming What’s a Terraform (SDT) This week’s Software Defined Talk...
Cook eggs in olive oil
Cook eggs in olive oil You should olive oil to cook your eggs with. I was visiting with some friends of our several years ago, one of them from a Houstonian...
They found $5 billion in the couch
They found $5 billion in the couch I did a calculation like this too quickly and really goofed it up on this week’s Software Defined Talk, doing some double...
Scuba
There's a couple weeks backlog here. Scuba I went scuba diving for the first time a few weeks ago. My son liked it so much we went twice. I was worried at...
The Business Bottleneck, book, now available, for free!
New book from me, free too! I have a new “report” out from O’Reilly and sponsored by VMWare/Pivotal. It’s focused on how “The Business” can help out with...
Developers require janitors
Developers require janitors Rightly, people put a lot of value on developers: At the same time, if you look at the dollars, the business value at play in the...