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The Three Listens Rule
11-27-2024
Many years ago, my friend Matt Brower introduced me to a concept that has stayed with me ever since. I’ve written about it before, but those words hav...
Infinities Are Everywhere
11-09-2024
When I was younger, I had a habit that I now recognize as both common and dangerous: I would read the overview of a topic and assume I understood it c...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Coding
10-08-2021
There have always been echoes through computer science that coding will be a part of education in our future in the same way that written language and...
Responsibility and Collaboration
07-31-2020
In every organization I have been a part of, some aspect of the operation has become the role of every member of a group to maintain. This could be th...
The Monkey Ladder Experiment
07-24-2020
For a couple decades now there has been a story floating around about an experiment with monkeys, bananas, and a cold water spray. The experiment is d...
Tools Over Rules
07-19-2020
A major theme of agile development is that teams are made of individuals. This concept is at the very core as one of the main phrases from the manifes...
No New Normal
07-10-2020
During large changes I often hear the term “the new normal” to describe the settled period after transition has occurred. This term is loaded with the...
Ouija Board Engineering
07-03-2020
The most interesting part of a ouija board session is that results are generated. After the candles have been lit and the chants have been moaned, the...
The Negative Split
06-26-2020
Many times throughout your life you will find opportunities where the knowledge you gain from one discipline can be applied to another discipline. One...