Joe is a good boss™. One day, as he’s sitting in his office reviewing his spreadsheets and making important decisions to help his teams, his employee comes in complaining about something. Being a certified good boss™, he quickly interrupts and says “I appreciate your perspective and I want to help…

I am an introvert and it’s dumb. I’ve been looking at systems thinking and the phenomenon of emergence and it is teaching me why it’s dumb to be introverted and isolated. Emergence is the idea of higher intelligence appearing from the interactions of a group of individuals of lower intelligence…

Onward toward the Emperor’s hutment they came while the House Sardaukar stood awed for the first time in their history by an onslaught their minds found difficult to accept. Herbert, Frank. Dune In the book Dune the harsh environment forces an entire people to adapt to the conditions and become…

I didn’t learn how to make my bed every day until I was in my forties. Doesn’t it seem odd that in our advanced society I can feel a swell of pride that I make my bed every day and that I can use that to signal my hero status? …

I wrote the following in 2018 after setting myself a goal of publishing 300 terrible pieces of writing on the internet and stopping after about twenty. It became clear to me after doing it for a while how terrible they truly were and I found them embarrassing. …

I have experienced a lot of pain in code reviews over the years. I’ve had long arguments that were never resolved in them, I’ve had my simple changes blocked for a long time because someone’s opinions couldn’t be swayed. …

We all long for peace. I especially do when my kids are screaming at each other and the house is a mess. When that’s going on I hide in my bathroom and imagine sitting in the woods listening to the birds chirp, feeling the kiss of the wind and smelling…

If we want to be free, we need to learn to set others free. Humility is our friend in this endeavour. This post is an attempt to define humility for myself. Can I start to get to the answer by looking at what humility is not? Humility is not: being less important than someone else Humility is not thinking…

I’m on an adventure to write 300 terrible blog posts. I’m struggling to keep going actually, and we’re not even a tenth of the way in. It’s really late and I’m not able to come up with anything to write, so I’m just going to grab something I wrote once…