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May 2025

Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back
(also) leadership lessons from John Wick…
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Tenets
Why they have nothing to do with Christopher Nolan but yet still matter
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Problem solving in someone else's world: A fun trick to try at home or work
An Amazon war story of getting the Buyer-Seller messaging service off the ground
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Checklist for healthy multi-discipline pods
The organizational doc that's one of the best things to survive the implosion of a unicorn startup
Management and Culture checklists
Two sets of things that are worth confirming are true in your world (third one coming soon)
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April 2025

One metric to rule them all -- Order Defect Rate
A secret weapon of Amazon's 3P success
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Mediations on Tech Debt
Frame the problem's impact on Throughput and/or Business Impact to get buy in on change
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Fix the problem, not the blame
The sometimes counterintuitive art of looking hard at your mistakes
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Death Star Postmortem - Take #2
Still evil, but a few culture tweaks make a big difference. Though the video is far worse.
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The Star Wars Postmortem Concept Video
An AI exploration blows up, but not quite like the Death Star did
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This is not the culture you’re looking for...
Engineering lessons (on failure) from Star Wars
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