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Only hire when it hurts
On the assumption that more people will solve your non-people problems.
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Put a name on it
Recently at Nordhealth we embarked on a re-skin of our entire application: a visual uplift of the whole product to bring it into 2026. These kinds of changes have a big blast radius and are inherently risky, but we championed the individual...
Building a truth-seeking organisation
To lead well is to seek truth.
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Nobody needs a human router
Over the last decade, much has changed in the role of engineering management. Through the 2010s into the peak of Covid in 2021, for many, the role began to optimize for one thing. That one thing was moving information around.
Managers tra...
Focus as a convex curve
Less is more, then even more.
Welcome to the August subscriber edition. As I always say, thank you for being here, and for your continued support of this newsletter. I try my best to bring you something novel and, perhaps, a little differe...
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