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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...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.08.3
Briefs beat dashboards, empathy without therapy, the latest LLM release flurr...
The Brief vs. The Dashboard
Context beats raw data every time.
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.08.2
Real conversations matter, the design talent problem, lobbying engineers, and...
Revolutionizing team coordination in the AI era
My guest appearance on Dave Prior's podcast
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.08.1
The perils of mapping enterprise workflows, what a survey of 49K developers r...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.07.3
Coding agents wreak havoc, engineering is hard, flying blind with AI, and sol...
Steady updates - 25.07.1
Quick Fill templates, Confluence integration, smarter Echoes
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.07.2
Starting small with AI agents, humans as the loop, context over everything, a...