https://selectstarsql.com/ is one I point folks to quite often

Writing mods and server plugins for counter strike 1.6 is what got me into it.

I jokingly suggested a similar crusade against sprints, because the nature of my team’s work isn’t prohibitively time-boxed either.

Wasn’t expecting the people sitting on that zoom call with the power and influence to make such a change to actually agree

Rejected an offer because the work spaces for developers were even worse than open plan.

I am incredibly curious to learn more

“I’m in this post and I don’t like it”

I recently re-read the book and had a similarly traumatic episode from all the managers over my career that read the book and somehow took the wrong lessons from the dysfunction portrayed.

Jira itself is just systematic negging. Change my mind.

(Ok I’m being kinda sarcastic here but not by a lot)

The other common problem is a non-Manager - a “manager” who doesn’t talk to you and doesn’t know much about what you’re working on. They just want to check a dashboard, see all green lights, report to their managers that the light is green, and collect their pay check.

I know this person. They were a manager. They were my last manager. Thank the compiler I got moved to a different team when the org realized said manager had no idea what they were doing, shuffled some seats around and removed this manager from the company.

A good while back I read a paper, blog post…I read something somewhere a while back that laid out an interesting use case involving vehicular service records for fleet vehicles. And I know exactly about as much about blockchain then, as I do now, but I did spend some time in fleet logistics for a large scale service company with about 20+ field vans and at the time, the notion seemed compelling and interesting on the face of it.

After a very brief google, it seems the topic has been widely written about but nothing in depth compared to the piece I read all those years ago (which felt more like a full on white-paper). Looking around and will edit the comment if I find it so the people in the room who are smarter than I am can weigh in.