Let me start with a short scene that happened some time ago, at the peak of the IT job market’s craziness. We were interviewing a senior candidate with 10+ years of professional experience in serious, enterprise brands: mostly large organizations that do business the “traditional way” and do not...
You may not have heard about Price's law, so why don't we start with its definition? "In any group, the square root of the total members accounts for half the output. For example, in a team of 100, about 10 people contribute 50% of the...
It won't be the first time I praise Will Larson's books (directly or indirectly), but they deserve all the recognition they get, so I have no remorse. Anyway, I think it was "Staff Engineer," where Will has named two fascinating phenomena. They were not...
I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
Experience makes you think you've gained an unquestionable license to generalizing :) At least that's what is happening regularly in my case. I tend to believe I see patterns I wasn't able to identify years ago. Maybe I'm right, or perhaps it'...
I've decided to publish this blog post because it depicts the way of organizing the work that is non-linear, highly async, and requires constant navigation across vast amounts of multi-dimensional, interconnected data. IMHO such a problem space requires a very unorthodox approach. This is a story about how...
