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• 2024-07-29: Integrate rest into your work and practice
• 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