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...
We live in interesting times: completely new industries do pop up out of the blue, spawning completely new roles & positions, business models, and organizational structures. Our dynamic environments require us to re-invent what felt like carved-in-stone and compose unique organizations that fit our purpose. Obviously, sometimes we do it...
