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I’m a huge soccer fan, and I’m happily following the MLS Cup even though the local team was eliminated last week. Last night’s match between Real Salt Lake (RSL) and the Chicago Fire went to penalty kicks before one team finally prevailed. After the game ended, I went to mlsnet.com to watch the highlights and…

Not sure how it is where you live, but the weather is definitely cooling off here. Some stuff I found interesting this week is below. Angela Riggs has a nicely written article reflecting on the last days of her job at Instrument This is a really cool article on Adapting Maslow’s Hierarchy for a Remote…

I come across this frequently enough that I’m sure I’ve blogged about it before, but context dictates that I do it again. The story I hear goes pretty much like this: My team really needs to improve X, but nobody is taking responsibility for it. The fix is obvious – we need our exec /…

Status meetings are boring. More importantly, status meetings are unneeded. Meetings are for discussion, and updates on status rarely require that (until, of course, they do). Nothing – nothing is more painful than sitting through a meeting where people go around the table and say, “Today, I’m doing X”.  Hopefully nothing alarming so far. A lot of teams…

Hey everyone – it’s me again with some stuff I liked from the Internet this week This is an interesting article on pay cuts for fully remote work I’m disappointed we haven’t seen a whole lot more follow up from the January 6 insurrection, but at least there’s something Ever wonder what writing looks like…