Leadership

Four Steps That Lead Down the Road of Ignorance and Delusion — It’s a funny and strange question, I know. And yet, every single day, I read things from people who’d be horrified, object vehemently, even angrily, if someone pointed out they’re well on the way to becoming bona fide fascists…and yet espouse precisely those very beliefs. In America, the top Republican…

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 2: Empathy — “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks”. — John Muir In part 1 of this series, I talked about intuition and how it can help engineers improve their performance. In this part 2, I will talk about another soft skill critical for engineers— empathy. How it all started I…

In 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama published an essay in the journal The National Interest titled The End of History, which led to a bestselling book. Many took his argument to mean that, with the defeat of communism, US-style liberal democracy had emerged as…

The Big Lie That They’re Coming for Your Kids Is Fascism at It’s Most Dangerous and Sinister — It sounds like something you might have seen a sign for, cruising down a golden, sunlit highway, in your convertible, once upon a time. A motel, perhaps, in shades of seafoam blue-green. Ron DeSantis’s Fascist Paradise. (Well, except for the fascist part, that is.) And yet that appears to be…

And no, it’s not Diane Feinstein. — Just weeks ago, Katie Porter ruffled some feathers within the Democratic Party by announcing her intentions to run for Congress. It was apparently a problem, of course, because she had the audacity to run without discussing it with the woman who currently sits in the seat: none other than Senator…

The Scrum Team — I’m on a journey to go through the complete Scrum Guide (2020 version) and turn it inside out. Hoping to find a satisfying answer to the question: “Does Scrum make sense?” I started with “Purpose of Scrum” and “Empiricism”. I came to the conclusion that the premise of Scrum is…