The paradox of empathy
February 04, 2023Understanding the needs of another person is immensely helpful in tuning our behavior to them, and in predicting or even influencing their…
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Design partnerships not job descriptions
October 24, 2021When designing organizations much effort can be put into defining individual roles. It’s important to clearly spell out each individual’s…
Unfamiliar water
July 12, 2021When I arrived at Coach Stuart McDougal’s swim workshop yesterday, all thoughts about my family, parents and work ceased. The anxiety of my…
Process is for people
October 01, 2020This week a few colleagues and I, software engineers and managers at VMware Tanzu, attended the third installment of LeadDev Together. This…
To reduce the cost of change, compose don't inherit
January 26, 2014What follows is a note to some of my colleagues in early 2014, as we transitioned from writing mainly Ruby to writing Go. Published…
More vibrant Go in 3 moves
January 25, 2014Move 1: Describe interactions with roles Go’s interfaces are satisfied implicitly, making it incredibly easy to create role interfaces…