Resume Tips – Add Your Why
🌱Resumes can be boring to read and it comes down to the classic storytelling elements.
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I’m trying out extending my website with a digital garden, which feels more aligned to my increasing preference for horizontal organic growth rather than tree-centric metaphors.
The name is a play off “lossy” mental models, which I am sure to reflect in my thoughts here.
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Takeaways from Debt by Graeber
🌱Takeaways from finishing Debt: The First 5000 Years I think he’s saying:
I do believe it
🌿I do believe it, sweetheart. I think it works like this: They blur as they pour down, but they’re …
Team Topologies: Map of Content
🫚Team Topologies Map of Content Team Topologies provides one of the clearest mental models I’ve …
A Definition of Platform Product Management
🌿From Marty Cagan’s work on platform product management: “A platform is a set of …
Community practices I learned from Cathedral and the Bazaar
🌿Community as Co-Developers: Lessons from The Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric S.
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Resume Tips – Add Your Why
Resumes can be boring to read and it comes down to the classic storytelling elements.
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Takeaways from Debt by Graeber
Takeaways from finishing Debt: The First 5000 Years I think he’s saying:
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Go-To-Market Product Strategy
These are thoughts that turned to stickies that turned into my default playbook.
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Leonardo.ai is a Masters in Prompt Engineering
I wanted to generate a picture for a blog post, so I threw in a prompt:
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Not everything is a product in Team Topologies
“A fundamental misconception in product transformation is that everything must become a product.
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Dyadic Relationship Theory (def)
Dyadic Relationship Theory (often associated with Martin Buber’s I-Thou concept or various relational psychotherapy models).
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Poem by Rilke
You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything: The darkness that comes with every infinite fall And the shivering blaze of every step up.
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Product Management – Signs of Healthy Engineering Relationships
Product Management requires an effective partnership with Engineering. In my leadership experience, when an organization is still transitioning from …
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When data is wrong trust the anecdotes
“When the data and the anecdotes disagree,” he said in an interview, “the anecdotes are usually right.
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Robert Penn Warren on Continuity of Identity
“This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, …
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Exhalation by Ted Chiang – Book
Exhalation My favorite book. I adore his style of intersecting science with fiction to make something more than your standard science fiction as a …
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Cognitive and Relational Proximity
Proximity Distance or closeness, whether physical or mental, is described as “proximity” by social scientists.
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Literate Programming (def)
Literate Programming (def) I love that I stumbled across this on an old internet friend’s site:
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Etymology reveals implicit cognitive framing
Core Pattern [learning:: Etymology reveals how abstract concepts are grounded in physical/embodied metaphors, exposing historical cognitive frames …
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Graeber on Time, Money, and Honor
Money existed, but it was not used to buy anything; important men lived their lives in pursuit of honor, which took material form in followers and …
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ADHD timebounding advice
it’s easier to transition into an activity directly from another fixed anchor point (like drop-off) rather than from an amorphous period (like …
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all ritual is astrology or biology
Assertion of for small creatures such as we Astrological in the sense of seasons and signs.
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Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past
One of the most meaningful quotes I’ve heard and continuously come back to.
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Sensitive – alternatives to
The negative connotation often masks an under appreciated talent. The negative framing includes:
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Objectivity – my understanding of
Objectivity – My Understanding of Does not exist as commonly understood.
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Philosophers – Deleuze and Guattari
Philosophers – Deleuze and Guattari Very early scratch of notes…
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Personality Theories I'm familiar with
Personality Assessment Systems: Mental Models for Human Variation In my exploring mental models, I’ve become fascinated by the frameworks we use …
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Freedom as more than from – my understanding of
… freedom consists not merely in the possibility of doing certain things (i.
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Learning demands change
Learning demands change Unlike education, learning demands change. Learning makes us incompetent just before it enables us to grasp mastery.
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I saw things mocking me
“I saw things mocking me. I cannot say that I really saw images; they did not represent anything.
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A Definition of Platform Product Management
From Marty Cagan’s work on platform product management: “A platform is a set of capabilities that are exposed through APIs or other …
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Community practices I learned from Cathedral and the Bazaar
Community as Co-Developers: Lessons from The Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric S.
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Platform Product Extension Model Language
Every platform needs a way for others to extend its capabilities to get out of the firefight of feature requests and dissatisfied users using …
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Ampersand is began as a ligature and is now a logogram
I saw this on Instagram and love it – bring ampersand back to the alphabet!
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Conway's Law as Organizational Design Principle
Conway’s Law as Organizational Design Principle “Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of …
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Four Team Types for Modern Software Development
Four Team Types for Modern Software Development I enjoy the insights learned within enabling constraints.
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Platforms as Internal Products
Platforms as Internal Products “A digital platform is a foundation of self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge and support which are …
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Team Boundaries as System Architecture
Team Boundaries as System Architecture “Every part of the software system needs to be owned by exactly one team.
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Three Patterns for Team Interaction in Team Topologies
Three Patterns for Team Interaction in Team Topologies I’m still learning how to use these patterns effectively, but I know there’s …
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Understanding Cognitive Load in Team Design
Understanding Cognitive Load in Team Design “Do you feel like you’re effective and able to respond in a timely fashion to the work you are …
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enactivism
Enactivism is a theory in cognitive science and philosophy of mind that fundamentally challenges how we think about knowledge, perception, and …
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Immigration messaging and my understanding
I have a brief and imperfect understanding of the debate around immigration.
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Ant Invaders
Ant Invaders Their trail leads to places I deem my own, which leads to conflict.
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Ethernet comes from "ether"
[up:: Etymology reveals implicit cognitive framing] Fun Fact Etymology. I was perusing ArsTechnica’s impressive breakdown of the history/future of the …
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I do believe it
I do believe it, sweetheart. I think it works like this: They blur as they pour down, but they’re there – tight; bunched up – too tied up in knots to …
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Team Topologies Updated Its Concept of Platforms
Team Topologies Updated Its Concept of Platforms Matthew Skelton recently updated a crucial concept from Team Topologies that changes how platforms …
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Kahneman on Irrationality
Kahneman on Irrationality up:: Prospect Theory related:: Exploring Nietzsche’s 4 Errors
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Exploring Nietzsche's 4 Errors
Exploring Nietzsche’s 4 Errors up:: Friedrich Nietzsche Errors in Causation “the four great errors” but concisely?
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Goya’s Saturn
Goya’s Saturn A favorite terrifying moment in Art History. Saturn in Roman mythology is Cronus in Greek myths–father of all the gods.
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Kanban columns for lean publishing model
Kanban Columns for Lean Publishing Model What we used to keep Opensource.
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Rhizomes
Rhizomes While I’m still early in my understanding of it, the philosophy of Philosophers – Deleuze and Guattari speaks to me.
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Philosopher – Zizek, Slavoj
Philosopher – Zizek, Slavoj up: philosophy-my-most-influential-thinkers related: Mental Model MOCs
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Philosophy — my most influential thinkers
I love how philosophy taught me… Communication & Rhetoric and how to see through weak arguments and articulate what I mean See with new …
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George Lakoff on Frames
George Lakoff George Lakoff is a huge influence for me (see Philosophy — my most influential thinkers
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Team Topologies: Map of Content
Team Topologies Map of Content Team Topologies provides one of the clearest mental models I’ve found for organizing software teams and the …
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we are born a garden
We Are Born a Garden “Become who you are.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
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Attachment Theory (def)
#note/done🌱 Supports my My Understanding of Attachment Theory Overview Attachment theory, developed primarily by John Bowlby and later expanded by …