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Leadership

  • The Truth About Servant Leadership

    My job title says leader. My actual job is to serve. This isn’t a typo or a motivational phrase. It’s my operating principle, and it’s why I’ve had the teams I’ve had. I didn’t get these teams because I commanded great work. I got these teams to show up, figure out what was in the…

  • Why Mixing Generations Creates Better Solutions

    I hire interns. Not because I need cheap labor. Not because HR has a quota to fill. Because I get to watch what happens when someone who grew up with a smartphone in their hand sits next to someone who learned their craft with an Etch A Sketch. And it’s pure gold. The Collision Nobody…

  • Why Predictable Leaders Build Better Teams

    You walk into the Monday morning meeting. Someone brings up a problem that should’ve been caught last week. Your jaw tightens. You can feel the frustration building. Now you’ve got a choice. You can let it rip. Make an example. Show everyone you’re not tolerating sloppiness. Or you can take a breath, ask a few…

  • The Dangerous Thing Most Teams Do After a Big Win

    You just shipped the project. Six months of work. Late nights. Weekend sprints. Cross-functional chaos that somehow came together at the end. The deadline was brutal, but you made it. So what does your leader say the next morning? “Great job, everyone. Now let’s talk about Q3 priorities.” No pause. No reflection. No acknowledgment of…

  • Your Team Is Copying You Right Now (And You Have No Idea)

    Look, I’m just gonna say it: you’re teaching your team something every single day, and most of the time you don’t even realize it. Not with your motivational speeches. Not with your carefully worded emails. Not with that vision deck you spent three weeks perfecting. With the stuff you do when you think nobody’s paying…

  • How Great Leaders Build Teams That Think

    The leadership trap nobody warns you about We all want that team, the one that actually thinks for itself, that brings ideas to the table without waiting for permission. But here’s the trap nobody warns you about: the moment you start handing out answers, you’re killing the very thing you’re trying to build. You walk…

Agile

  • The Truth About Agile Nobody Admits

    February 11-13, 2001. Snowbird, Utah. The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort, specifically the Aspen Room. Seventeen software developers showed up. Not to create a movement. Not to launch a revolution. Just to talk about the fact that the way everyone was building software was completely broken. They called themselves “lightweight methodologists” because they were trying…

  • Agile Died When We Made It Easy

    I accepted this ten years ago. I watched companies slap “Agile” on their waterfall processes and call it transformation. I saw project managers rebrand themselves as Scrum Masters over a weekend certification course. People rush for SAFe training that violates every agile principle. I made peace with it. Told myself it didn’t matter. That’s just…

Product Management

  • Product Managers Just Got More Important With AI

    Boris Cherny runs 5 AI agents in parallel and ships like a 10-person engineering team. So naturally, LinkedIn is flooded with hot takes about how product managers are obsolete. How engineers can now “do PM work” because they can prompt Claude to build features. The bottleneck has moved upstream to product judgment, so every engineer…

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