I work on a small nimble team that is part of a giant multinational corporation. Our team can move fast, adapts to change easy, and has almost no bureaucracy. On the contrary, our corporate headquarters (like so many large organizations) moves at an overly cautious pace, struggles with change, and…

I’ve been working on a project at work for over a year now. We have a great team, lots of interesting ideas, and a fairly good balance of support and independence from the company at large. We are also well versed in agile development, conduct lots of user research…

This has been a very quiet week at my office. A few people are out on their summer vacations, and a few more are out at an industry conference. Since I’m the only engineer on staff this week, I’ve had to resort to merging my own pull requests…

Just as time is a finite resource, so is energy. It takes physical energy to move, and mental energy to think and create. An individual has a relative static amount of each type of energy on a given day. While it’s possible to go above and beyond this energy…

In 1930, British Economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that 100 years in the future the standard full-time work week would have been whittled down to just 15 hours a week. In the 85 years since that prediction was made the world has changed at a breakneck pace. However, the standard…

I had a recent encounter with corporate ethics training that left a sour taste in my mouth. Every employee had to stop whatever they were doing to go through this training. Instead of doing something that adds value to the business, they spent their time mindlessly clicking ‘next’ without even…