I like this alternative to the “Disagree and Commit” saying: “Disagree and let’s see” allows you to stay aligned with the team without forcing you to pretend you had conviction you didn’t have. It lets you walk into a room with your team and be honest: “Here’s the path that was chosen. It wasn’t my […]
Not sure how many people would be interested in this, but it was fun to make so I thought I’d share. This is a Discord bot that provides real-time stock and cryptocurrency information, 30-day price trends, and AI-powered news summaries through slash commands. When you add the bot to Discord you can use the /stock […]
Metadata is the hardest problem in software, and these examples prove my point. Don’t @ me! My favourite: a band named brouillard, with a single member called brouillard, whose every single album is named brouillard, and of course, so is every single track. Source: Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music →
Lorin Hochstein is a big name in the LFI (Learning From Incidents) space. He often writes about post-incident reviews, and he has a very interesting write-up of the Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 blog post. I especially loved this part: Companies generally err on the side of saying less rather than more. After all, […]
Some tough love here about what it means to have “executive presence”. When someone tells you that you need more business sense, or that you’re not ready for more scope, or that you need to level up, this is typically what they’re trying to communicate. That you’re more concerned with how work happens than with […]
A great list of things to keep in mind when communicating via writing. The article is focused on “managing up” but these principles are relevant in a much broader context as well. What questions does your manager usually ask? Answer those questions yourself. If you take anything away from this article, make it this. Every […]
This is an essay I think everyone should read, front to back. It’s about all the things we are living through right now, but it’s especially about work (and AI): I’m not sure hiring can ever be much more efficient, because neither side has reason to show themselves as they really are, warts and all. […]
Wild story: Multiple people we spoke to for this story lamented feeling “ganged up on” as a partner used chatbot outputs against them during arguments or moments of marital crisis. One of these sources, a man who’s now in the process of selling his home as he and his spouse barrel toward divorce, recounted feeling […]