The Stoic Agilist

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Speaking with colleagues this past week, the following quandary was posed: What do you do if clients are asking for something you're good at, but don't…
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I've frequently heard people charged with leading teams - managerial and executive - express the need to establish "trust" with their employees before…
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A colleague of mine is of the opinion that "we won't have truly evolved as a species until we stop doing things simply because we can. Perhaps it is…
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Here's some work. Do it. And the deadline cannot change. Suffering, for pay.
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Literally and figuratively. On purpose. The work to replace the carpet in my house has been an on-going effort for the past six months. Sorting out the…
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That’s the question asked in a recent WSJ article (“Retirees’ Re-Entering the Labor Market Isn’t ‘Good for the Economy’”). I sketched out the following…
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Drive down any street in a planned community or someplace generally though of as suburbia and you’ll see that virtually every house has both a garage…
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I’ve invested in several careers working on someone else’s ideas, principally by means of writing software code that helps someone else realize their…
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On a random walk through the heap of unorganized bookmarks in my browser I came across this one: Matt Cain of San Francisco Giants tosses 22nd perfect…
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When a potter begins to throw a pot, she picks up a lump of clay, shapes it into a rough sphere, and throws it onto the spinning potter's wheel. It may…
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In order to rapidly improve our agile performance, we need a way to measure our performance. Otherwise, improvement will be random and performance may…
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Isaac Saul has an excellent post that does the heavy lifting for understanding what drives the price of a gallon of gasoline in the US. I'd like to see…
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