word cloud created from the wisdom in the Rules of Thumb and Nuggets of Wisdom section of the book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams
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the Rules of Thumb section of Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams - the book’s "soft, creamy center” (--reviewer)
(Of the 300, my core rule of thumb?
“Software development is a team sport.”)
www.managingtheunmanageable.net
26.02.2026 23:24
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What Really Happens in a Board Meeting
Demystifying Board Meetings: A CTO's Perspective
Two recent all-too-rare sets of insights for engineering leaders…
Kevin Goldsmith demystifies board meetings, and eng leaders at those meetings. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-r...
Rich Mironov’s new book Money Stories targets PdMs, but applies equally to VPEs & CTOs. www.amazon.com/Money-Storie...
25.02.2026 07:27
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Ron Lichty teaching...
I like teaching agile to teams - helping sw teams be both more effective and happier. I counted up the number of agile trainings I've delivered. I was surprised. More than twice what I'd guessed - almost 200 - first 11 years mostly in person, last 6 years all virtual (but to similar rave reviews!).
22.02.2026 07:22
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A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.
21.02.2026 17:46
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Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement. “I don’t even have parking tickets in the background anywhere,” she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.”
So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
Border Patrol is operating as bounty hunters.
Agents are apparently getting paid for each person they put in detention. Even if those people are grandmothers traveling on valid tourist visas.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
22.02.2026 01:40
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Jesse Jackson on the ground: An Iowa caucus memoir
Dave Leshtz recalls working for Jesse Jackson in Iowa: "the most exhilarating, inspiring, and illuminating" campaign he ever worked on.
"The sad news of Reverend Jackson’s death brought back memories of his presidential campaign of 1987-88, the most exhilarating, inspiring, and illuminating of all the campaigns I’ve worked on." The Jesse Jacson Iowa campaign story. www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/02/18/j...
19.02.2026 22:40
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Ron Lichty: Better Standups
If your standup meetings never result in change, they’re probably just status meetings. ronlichty.blogspot.com/2019/12/bett...
09.02.2026 19:53
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The Importance of Headroom: Time, Energy, Capital
The best CEOs don’t run at 100%. They protect headroom — time, energy, capital — so they can act fast when opportunity strikes.
Making the case to CEOs: Using up 100% capacity prevents responsiveness. You must protect 20% headroom, margin, slack - it’s not waste - it’s the capacity to seize opportunity when it counts the most. mrjoe.uk/the-importan... —Joe Leech
15.01.2026 22:30
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Bluebird day yesterday at Bear Valley cross country with friends Dave and Steve Milne (can just see them disappearing over herringbone hill behind me, on the Equipe trail) - fast skate skiers, they. I'm on classic skis at 7,000 feet these days. (Still willing to skate at 3,000 feet in the Cascades!)
13.01.2026 20:48
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It’s never been the speed of your developers. Never.
03.01.2026 05:55
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Jim Shore: what if we scaled our teams to marvelous sizes?
YouTube video by Decoding Leadership
Traditional scaling creates the very problems it's meant to solve!
@jamesshore.bsky.social James Shore shares why the common wisdom of carefully aligning teams and responsibilities eventually breaks down, and how #FASTAgile offers a fundamentally different approach.
youtu.be/2w7of-65Cts
20.12.2025 17:33
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We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
09.12.2025 01:26
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Loved C. But loved Pascal more. (Course I loved assembly, too.)
13.12.2025 23:19
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WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
06.12.2025 04:16
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
06.12.2025 04:29
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Remove Megyn Kelly from SiriusXM!
Kelly just received a multiyear deal with SiriusXM. Her on-air comments defending Epstein's child trafficking make it clear: she should NOT have a platform with millions of listeners. Sign the petitio...
Kelly just received a multiyear deal with SiriusXM. Her on-air comments defending Epstein's child trafficking make it clear: she should NOT have a platform with millions of listeners. Sign the petition now to demand that SIriusXM cancel Megyn Kelly’s show NOW! sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...
04.12.2025 01:13
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I grew up being told "the older you get, the more conservative you become." I'm finding that the older I get, the more I just want our society to be more tolerant, charitable, kind, peaceable, and ensure that everyone has what they need to survive and thrive.
02.12.2025 18:19
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Stop Scam Ads on Social Media
Sign our petition for the government to hold social media companies accountable for posting ads that could scam consumers action.consumerreports.org/sm-20251117-...
20.11.2025 17:00
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Vladimir Horowitz plays Chopin Polonaise in A flat major op.53
YouTube video by BestClassicalMusic
Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op.53 - Heroic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1-u... Chopin must be the greatest piano composer ever. Amazing runs. I studied piano for nearly a decade. No idea how to execute those long runs.
27.11.2025 01:28
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Enlightened Managers: The Key to Empowering & Encouraging Self-Organizing Teams
YouTube video by Enterprise Agile
Did you miss “Enlightened Managers: The Key to Empowering & Encouraging Self-Organizing Teams”? It’s recorded. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5r...
26.11.2025 01:58
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Strategic Decision Making: For Your Career Or Product!, Thu, Dec 4, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Trying to figure out your next career move? Or perhaps you are deciding what direction to take your product? This session will teach you how to use [SWOT analysis](https://
SWOT - a useful framework for decision-making. Chris Sims will review in his Scrum Professionals meetup next week. And hands-on, for your next career move or your next product direction. Review combined w/ opportunity to think thru your very own challenge. Priceless. www.meetup.com/scrumprofess...
25.11.2025 22:02
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The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
Sobering. And wonderful. Just finished the sixth/last episode of Ken Burns' new documentary, The American Revolution. Recommended. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
24.11.2025 00:31
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