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- 2024-03-11: Work on tasks, not stories
- 2024-01-19: The most important goal in designing software is understandability
- 2024-01-08: Are any of your features the steak on the menu?
- 2023-11-27: Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time?
- 2023-10-09: A student asked how I keep us innovative. I don't.
- 2023-09-11: A systematic approach to debugging
- 2023-07-31: Throw away your first draft of your code
- 2023-06-12: Optimize sprint points to get nowhere fast
- 2023-05-01: You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap
- 2023-03-27: Different topologies for an org chart, wrong answers only
- 2023-03-06: Getting people to tell you you're wrong
- 2022-09-11: I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!
- 2022-07-09: Running an Effective Book Club at Work
- 2021-01-11: Lessons from my first (very bad) on-call experience
- 2020-12-22: Tech salaries probably aren't dropping from remote work
- 2018-11-02: Kill the crunch time heroics
- 2018-08-23: Topologies of Remote Teams
- 2018-06-02: How I Work Remotely
- 2017-09-02: The bittersweet end of a year of independence
- 2016-09-26: Consider Part-Time Work
- 2016-08-21: Starting a New Chapter
- 2015-03-08: In Defense of the Midwest