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| Issues | 30 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 22 days ago |
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Stop Pretending You’re a Servant
Martin Fowler dropped a short but sharp post recently about something that’s been bugging me for years. He called servant leadership what it is: a power dynamic wearing a costume.
Let me back up.
If you’ve spent any time in agile circles,...
The Floor and the Fractures
Most leadership writing inflates basic adulthood.
Pick up any book on technical leadership, the kind with a confident verb in the title and a foreword by someone whose LinkedIn lists “thought leader” without irony, and write down the trait...
Performative Pragmatism
At a previous company, I attended a sprint planning meeting where a colleague proposed we draft a one-page architecture sketch before splitting the work. It would have taken twenty minutes. A senior engineer cut him off mid-sentence with a...
There is a reason that caveman is a character from the past
I was scrolling through my timeline last month when I stumbled across a repository that promised to cut the AI coding bills by seventy-five percent. The pitch was simple. Install a skill into Claude Code, Cursor, or any of forty other agent...
When feedback stops working
I’m fairly certain you’ve approved a PR without really reading it. Not out of laziness. Out of volume.
The junior who submitted it got a green checkmark. Maybe a “LGTM” comment. Moved on to the next ticket. Never learned why the abstractio...
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Former Carioca \ud83c\udfd6 living in Curitiba \ud83c\udfd4 ⛩️ Supreme Leader ⛩️ Author of "System Programming Essentials with Go" and "Learning Zig". Texts about Tech Leadership, software engineering.
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