Leadership

Our Dirty Industrial Economy Was the Greatest Bubble in Human History, and Now It’s Popping — “I’m trying to figure out how bleak the future of the planet is. I assure myself that, even if I’m a starving artist, at least I have thousands of dollars in my retirement fund that I’ve been saving up for the last 20 years. Now I’m worried that everything we…

The older your Product Backlog Item gets, the more irrelevant it becomes — Do you have dozens or hundreds of items in your Product Backlog? Do your backlog items last a couple of months or several months, if not years? Do you remove old items from your backlog or move them to the bottom? The more on the left your answers are, the…

They forget about work. — “Man, he sure believed in you!” the CFO said to me after a couple beers at a company meeting. “He was always pumping you up at our manager meetings.” He was talking about my old boss. A no-nonsense boss with a gruff exterior, but a heart of gold. He saw…

How do You (Really) Feel These Days, No BS? Here’s How I Do — “I don’t know why.” I was talking to my kid sis, aka my shrink, aka my best buddy, aka my archenemy. “Well…try to explain,” she said. “I just feel like there’s this weird bad energy emanating from the center of the universe, or at least people, and I can feel…

Hopefully it’s not super harmful — Over the years I’ve encountered a few Christian reasonings I just can’t agree with. Yet I understand that just because something’s my conviction doesn’t mean it’s the absolute truth — and I go about my day mostly minding my own business. Who am I to tell others what’s what? Unity…