Shared Physics

Someone once asked me whether you can join a dysfunctional company and still have a good career. They assumed dysfunction is rare—something you'd see in advance and choose to join or avoid. But my experience is that most companies are dysfunctional in some significant and non-immediately

Well here we are. Another year has gone by. Each year, it goes by quicker and quicker. Each year, it grabs a hold of me and whispers, “you’re on a one-directional ride, buddy!” I’m now a quarter of the way through — no, scratch

We’ve been asking the wrong questions in every retrospective and assigning the wrong endings to every story for the past century. ‘What did we learn?’ assumes a lesson exists to be learned, and that a certainty about the world can be extracted. What if there isn’t?

Here’s a 🌶️ spicy take: I think practice at human/LLM interactions can lead to better human/human interactions. --- Over the last few months I've watched colleagues spend considerable time crafting and sharing LLM prompts for different projects—complete with context, examples, and success

In "Identifying Signals of Expertise", I ended up cutting almost 2000 words to keep things succinct and focused. But that stuff was useful! If you're looking to upskill your interviewing skills further and dive deeper into identifying signals of expertise, read on; I've included