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  • Can’t Measure, Can’t Manage

    Every now and then it becomes briefly public that “If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It“, is not at all what Peter Drucker or W. Edwards Deming said. Management is not a neatly solved problem of defining OKRs and managing SLIs. On the other hand, it’s also not a mystical exercise in holocracy,

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  • Guest post for Patchfox.io

    I wrote a guest piece for Patchfox about free trials, check it out here.

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  • Observe Blog

    I’ve been writing less here because I’m writing more for work. Some marketing, some thot leedership, a little mixed together.

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  • Sun rising through the fog over Berkeley on a March morning, as seen from César Chávez Park

    Focus on Your User

    Recently I got mad at my watch, or more specifically its phone app. I have a Garmin Fenix Sapphire 7 Solar. As you might guess from that string of syllables, Garmin’s got a lot of watch models. If I’m parsing that page correctly, they’ve segmented their market across 19 brands, and just over 100 models.

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  • Book cover: The Practice of Practice by Jonathan Harnum

    Book review: the Practice of Practice

    The Practice of Practice by trumpeter Jonathan Harnum presents a lot of quality advice for getting things done. The book is written in bite sized nibbles with a lot of puns. It’s also full of QR codes to URL-shortened links to videos and apps, which I didn’t use. I’ve been going through a relative low

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