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Sweden vs Denmark: How One Policy in the 90s Shaped Today's Tech Scene
Sweden has 39 unicorns. Denmark has 16. How a simple tax reform in 1998 created a generation of digital natives.
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Thoughts on engineering, leadership, and the craft of software.
Leadership—•Part of series: Good team, good product, good manager
The Cycle: Why Organizations Rotate Through the 2/3 Pattern
What if the 2/3 pattern isn't a permanent trade-off, but a loop you can navigate intentionally? Organizations might cycle through these phases.
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Posts with a period in the title got flagged 80% more often
A few decades back, I was running moderation for a community with over a million monthly active users. Threads were getting out of hand.
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Facilitator vs Communicator: Writing About Communities, Not For Them
You know that feeling when you join a company's community and it just feels... off? Like you're in a marketing funnel that happens to have a chat feature?
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The cycle: why organizations must choose focus (5 of 5 in series)
Can we have all three? This is the question I keep coming back to. Lencioni says organizational health is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jim Collins talks about "First who, then what."
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Why good leaders don't always build great teams (4 of 5 in series)
In the previous post, I talked about the three trade-off combinations, Leadership + Team, Leadership + Strategy, and Strategy + Team.
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Why you can't have it all: "The Three Pillar"-trade-offs (3 of 5 in series)
So here's where it gets interesting. In the previous post, I talked about how each pillar can have structural dysfunctions, teams that seem cohesive but are actually united by a common enemy.
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The Three Pillars refined; leadership, product, team (2 of 5 in series)
Following up on the previous post about the 2/3 pattern, let me break down what I mean by three pillars.
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Good boss, good product, good team, pick two (1 of 5 in series)
There's a running joke I keep hearing: in any organization you join, you only get two of three things: a good boss, a good product, or a good team. Pick your poison.
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Uncertainty: Where logic-bound engineers collide with real-world business complexity
We've all felt the gap when business developers and engineers meet to solve the same problems. It's not that we have different goals, but we speak different dialects.
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