~ Book review ~

Governing the Commons

The ‘commons’ are any shared public resource. Ostrom’s book says we can share them to everyone’s benefit. Can we apply this to software development?

The Tao Of Pooh

Winnie the Pooh is just over 100 years old. You wouldn’t think he has much to say about software development, let alone extreme programming, but Pooh’s approach has a lot to teach us. And not just in development.

Games And Agency

What if we were to think of the role of engineering manager as equivalent to a dungeon master? How does that lens change how we see things?

How Buildings Learn

Can you design for change and re-use? Should you? Isn’t doing one thing and doing it well the goal?

Seeing Like a State

It’s very easy to fall into the habit of seeing like a state. It’s also not very helpful.

Drive

What happens when you look beyond Maslow’s hierarchy? What can you learn about what motivates us? What drives us?

In The Beginning Was The Command Line

A breif history of the CLI