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TBM 448: The Software Factory as Identity Defense (and Reinvention)
“Software factory” is a kind of identity defense (and branding). And there’s a historical precedent here.
I’ve been pondering the almost Dionysian fervor surrounding all these new “factories” people are building. The sheer exhilaration, ob...
TBM 447: Why We Sabotage Our Careers
Still from False Confidence (2019). Choreography by Sean Lew. Performed by Sean Lew and Kaycee Rice. Cinematography by Jon Hernandez. Music by Noah Kahan.
I’ve been isolating in bed with COVID for the last week, with way too much time on m...
TBM 446: Halos, Vibes, Causality, and Identity
Life gets easier when you stop getting pulled into debates over people’s implicit causal claims and start recognizing that many of these conversations are really about values, identity, and worldview. Yours/ours included.
This is difficult...
TBM 445: The Feature Factory: A 10-Year Retrospective
10 years ago I wrote a post on Medium about Feature Factories that literally changed my life. Funny story: I was trying to get a Medium researcher to understand something. I wrote the post in a couple minutes to “prove” that the punchier, m...
TBM 444: What a Workplace Can’t Promise
In other posts, I’ve written about the distinction between “the work” and “the workplace.” I want to dig a little more into what makes workplaces unique.
It is not naïve to seek autonomy, mastery, and purpose at work. Given how much of our...
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