Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
What’s the “reverse centaur”? I read about this concept in Cory Doctorow's last book. Paraphrasing him (clumsily): * A centaur is a setup where the human is in control, and an external factor (e.g., artificial intelligence, an exoskeleton, a cognitive boost) augments him to boost his capabilities....
The Internet is so full of good advice, great frameworks, bulletproof methods, brilliant mental models - how is it possible that so many companies (/organizations/teams) still struggle with basic things? Continuous improvement, 4DX (Four Disciplines of Execution), Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints - just these few tools should be more than...
The true merit, skill, and ability to execute should (in theory) always stand for themselves - in the end, what truly matters is whether one gets the shit done or not. But due to obvious asymmetries in information flow and the sheer size of the global job market, one has to...
Do you recall Eliyahu Goldratt’s “Theory of Constraints” (ToC)? It’s a relatively simple (& industry-agnostic) management paradigm focused on workflow efficiency. Simple, yet with massive practical implications. The key theses of this paradigm (that is fully compatible with Systems' Theory) go something like this: 1. The...
According to the data shared by GitHub (e.g., here), the programming activity is booming online: not only do we get more developers, but they also create more code. Unsurprisingly, this trend is mostly attributed to the rise of LLMs (in all flavors: from "autocomplete on steroids" to...
I have a weird personality - an amalgamate of strongly contrasting characteristics that don’t come together frequently (e.g., intense + analytical, competitive + stoic). Some of them I’ve strongly developed over the years, but there’s a bunch I’d call innate - “analytical” is probably the most important of those....
