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I Finally Figured Out Why Some Stakeholders Drove Me Crazy - And It's Not What I Thought
I’ve been working on something for the past few weeks that started as pure frustration and ended up as a whole framework. It’s helped me understand workplace dynamics in a completely new way, and I thought it might be useful for you too. Here’s what I learned.
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Things Paper Forms Can Do (that digital forms can't)
Can’t without some awareness and intent, that is. Forms seem on the surface like simply a way to collect information - a way that’s easier than alternatives for the person collecting the information. However forms are a user interface to an organization. And paper forms offer some important affordances that digital forms might not, in all cases, offer.
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Prioritize to get the results you want
Read more →If you want then prioritize Attention / Marketing Front-end / UI polish and visual appeal - sizzle Sales Front-end functionality - what does it do Retention Admin UI and config/provisioning UI Customer Satisfaction High quality reliable scalable server Long-term ROI Ease and safety to maintain -
Why I turned our daily standups inside-out
When I started working with a team that kept missing sprint commitments, my first action was to drop the traditional static 3-question daily standup. Instead, we began a daily practice of recalibrating our plan-to-completion relative to the sprint goal.
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Cycle Time for Software Development Teams
Flow metrics—cycle time and lead time—give teams immediate information and feedback they can use to improve their process. They show the effects of process experiments faster. And they encourage team behavior that leads to the results managers care about—deliver more, faster, and with production reliability.
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TIL file: Gmail custom inboxes
Stumbled over this feature. Why I like it:
- I can easily see what needs my attention right away.
- I can choose panel contents rather than let GMail choose for me.
- Example:
in:unreads -category:promotions
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AI and Transcendence: Beyond Mere Memorialization
The other day I asked “Do We Envy AI?” Does “AI” seem to possess some kinds of transcendence that we aspire to but can’t or haven’t reached? Today, the inverse: using LLMs and related technologies to create representations of ourselves that survive our deaths. Welcome Lucy AI, an art installation/exhibit that was explicitly created in response to Lucy Simic’s stage 4 cancer diagnosis.
Of interest:
- Lucy AI (Reimagine.ai)
- How Your Memories Can Live On After You Die (Terms of Service podcast, Claire Duffy, Lucy Simic, David Usher)
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[Grief bots allow people to talk to the dead. Does it help? Terms of Service](https://youtu.be/NaBRsqFGtos?si=WKtIH37FkkOFvrI9) (Claire Duffy, Mary-Frances O’Connor)
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Do We Envy AI?
For millennia, humans have invented dozens of ways to survive, as individuals, beyond the limits of our physical existence. Does generative AI appear to exist in a transcendent state we have only aspired to? On some level, do we resent that apparently privileged position? In short, do we envy AI?
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Are You On The Deal-and-Churn Treadmill?
Voxly was flying. The fitness facility management startup had signed three major chains in four months. Each new client meant rushing to configure their properties in Voxly’s system—class schedules, instructor assignments, studio capacity limits, member restrictions. The admin interface was barebones, but who had time for field validation when Fitness Chain Y needed to go live before their board meeting?
“We’ll build proper safeguards later,” became the team refrain. “Right now we need to get these partnerships announced.”
Six months later, same energy, different emotion.
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Choose Your Own (AI-Assisted) Adventure
We don’t have to summit Everest. We can get rapid prototyping benefits without vibecoding. We’ve been prototyping all along. AI assistance expands what’s possible without requiring us to master developer toolchains.
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