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The Steady Beat, Issue #77: AI skepticism and verification, toxic workplace p...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.11.4
AI agent of the week, rebuilding trust through authentic leadership, how to o...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.11.3
Engineers must be multipliers, there's no strategy without accountability, le...
Steady updates - 25.11.1
Improved activity tracking & ad-hoc meeting tracking
The Best Tools for Daily and Weekly Status Updates in 2026
Compare the best tools for daily & weekly team updates, and why dedicated too...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.11.2
Agreement and alignment are not the same thing, AI works when workflows are o...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.11.1
Lazy best practices, the collapsing career ladder, AGI conspiracy theories, a...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.10.5
Older but better AI models, calm under fire, your mom hates your app, and ove...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.10.4
AWS delivers a snow day, high-performing teams in the AI era, questioning the...
High-Performing Teams in the Age of AI
My talk at the 2025 University of Maryland Product Symposium
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.10.3
Workflow elimination over efficiency, a framework for managing up, the power ...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.10.2
AI makes everything better/worse, Zoom is for multi-tasking, coding fraud, an...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.10.1
Nobody is right, the beauty of constraints, jumping from IC to manager, and y...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.09.4
Scoring AI agent trustworthiness, craft is always relevant, AI is not a co-wo...
Steady updates - 25.09.1
Shared goal templates, more content in Echoes, and more
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.09.3
Lessons on leadership from Ted Lasso, creating a team quotient, async on site...
The death of middle management is greatly exaggerated
We need these change agents more than ever.
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.09.2
A shared brain for teamwork, the AI app no-show, cubicles rule, and keeping u...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.09.1
How to mess up as a leader, tips for demonstrating AI fluency in interviews, ...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.08.5
Looping technical debt, probabilistic products, human judgement in the loop, ...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.08.4
What we can learn from teams of ants, managing your manager, AI adoption requ...