Shape Up will help you break free of “best practices” that aren’t really working, think deeper about the right problems, and start shipping meaningful projects your team can celebrate.
How to Get Things Done When You Don’t Feel Like It: Five strategies for pushing through: Queue: Vol 16, No 4
If you want to be successful, then it serves you better to rise to the occasion no matter what. That means learning how to push through challenges and deliver valuable results.
Grit your teeth and ship it
Being good at building and being good at shipping are two separate skills. In the short term, they’re actually countervailing: if you have a gift for building…
Work Smarter: The Cocktail of Simplicity, Manageable Adversity, and Muntzing
Sometimes deliberate roadblocks can be a good thing to get more efficient and effective products and workflow. Here's how.
Your engineering team looks healthy. It probably isn't
When everyone ships and nobody decides
Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects | Jade Rubick - Engineering Leadership
Programs are more complicated than projects which are more complicated than milestones. Instead of projects, focus on milestonesMost engineering organizations focus on delivering projects. You can get better results by focusing on milestones instead.
How to not screw up your product strategy | Jade Rubick - Engineering Leadership
An overview of common mistakes people make while developing a product strategy, tips for creating a successful strategy, and how to communicate and execute on a product strategy.
CHANGE THE WORLD. START WITH YOURSELF. “Make your bed every morning.” Admiral William H. McRaven reminds us that even the smallest tasks matter. Discipline begins with simple actions, and small victories build the foundation for greater achievements. If you can’t do the little things right, you’ll never be able to do the big things right. Start small. Stay disciplined. Make a difference. #Discipline #Leadership #Motivation #PersonalGrowth #Success
Build the thing you wish to see in the world
For most of my career, I've been confusing building products with building businesses—and that confusion kept me from pursuing a lot of ideas. Two weeks off helped me realize that not everything needs to be a startup, and some of the best things we build are the ones we build just because we want them to exist.
The Flotilla Letters: Catching Up
I’ve been chugging away on the Crowbar Handbook which you can read as I write each section (recent sections include How to Ditch Your Stuff, What to Do About Work, and Eat Well for Less).
The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge
Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome. Loops and graphs, Wheelhouse and Beads, the end of human code review, the Land Rush that replaces CI/CD, and the Wish Factory — a field report from 12 months in the future.
Paging Charity? How do I get my leaders to stop running teams Into the ground? - Stack Overflow
I'm a senior staff engineer, and I’m wondering what advice you might have for a person in my role in a large company to affect priorities and the speed at which work is "expected" to be executed.
Todoist Inspiration
Productivity inspiration and tactical advice that's actually useful.
The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers — Steve Yegge
Part 2 of The Shape of Things to Come. Model welfare as an engineering discipline: seats and sessions, laurels, handoffs instead of /exit, and how to build a city worth waking up in.
Developing a Valencia Strategy: laying track in front of the train – Scottish Communities Climate Action Network & Transition Scotland Hub
"In a situation like this there has to be a plan. You can’t make it up on the fly in the middle of a breakdown." Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson “Preparedness is not just about having stuff, it's…
Let’s build a fleet and change the world
Abandon Big Ship, get on a Little Ship
