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Whose truths?

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/whose-truths/

Published: October 8, 2024 20:03

Great questions from John Voss, in a talk about queering design systems thinking.

Stay in the gap

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/stay-in-the-gap/

Published: October 2, 2024 14:55

The work is the work.

Resilience is collective

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/resilience-is-collective/

Published: September 27, 2024 14:40

Thoughtful and actionable paper from Johan Allspaw about engineering resilience—with principles and tactics applicable to other kinds of work, I think.

Being bad

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/being-bad/

Published: September 25, 2024 13:08

“Why did Caroline Ellison do it?” asks Liz Lopatto in *The Verge.* What I find interesting about her answer is the connection to Ellison’s desire to please the people around her.

All on the table

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/all-on-the-table/

Published: September 10, 2024 13:25

Real talk about money and our collective future.

Good collaboration

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/good-collaboration/

Published: September 3, 2024 16:12

Miriam Eric Suzanne explores what it means for design to be collaborative without being authoritarian, and lands upon models more commonly talked about in infoshops than product orgs.

Big decisions take time

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/big-decisions-take-time/

Published: August 31, 2024 15:58

Many of my clients make big decisions while we’re working together—to change jobs or fields, to move to another city or country, to pursue an exciting but daunting new project.

Guide to consensus decision making

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/guide-to-consensus-decision-making/

Published: July 30, 2024 21:47

Seeds for Change has a great and brief guide to consensus decision making, useful for anyone who wants to quickly get a group up to speed about best practices for building consensus.

Make kin not nets

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/make-kin-not-nets/

Published: July 16, 2024 14:14

Caretaking beats value capture every time.

Tech coop how-to

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/tech-coop-how-to/

Published: July 15, 2024 16:48

One of my hypotheses about this moment in the tech industry is that, as more and more people burnout on layoffs and AI-sparkle-driven product plans, a great number of talented people will be ready to start their own ventures—and will be looking for…

Leaving and arriving

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/leaving-and-arriving/

Published: July 2, 2024 18:50

“To get there, I had to first understand I’m not cut for the web industry anymore.”

After the rupture

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/after-the-rupture/

Published: June 28, 2024 11:28

Opening to possibility.

Bots won’t build teams

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/bots-wont-build-teams/

Published: June 18, 2024 17:21

Charity Majors argues cogently that generative AI, whatever its abilities, will never build your engineering team.

The gift of accountability.

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/the-gift-of-accountability/

Published: June 13, 2024 11:20

Be a storyteller not a debt collector.

Founder burnout

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/founder-burnout/

Published: June 5, 2024 13:38

“Leaving a situation that doesn’t serve you is a strength, not a weakness, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise,” writes Karolina Szczur, in a post about founder burnout.

Just jobs

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/just-jobs/

Published: May 29, 2024 18:27

S.E. Smith writes in YES! about the intersections of remote work and accessibility.

Half-ass it

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/half-ass-it/

Published: May 22, 2024 16:52

I work with a lot of self-identified overachievers, many of whom are working hard at reform.

Managing anxiety

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/managing-anxiety/

Published: May 21, 2024 14:23

From the Developer Success Lab comes an excellent resource: the Code Review Anxiety Workbook. While geared towards engineers, I think the counsel here is relevant to the anxiety of sharing work and getting feedback across many other fields, and likely to…

Farfetching

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/farfetching/

Published: May 16, 2024 12:08

Bring the future closer.

Bookending

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/bookending/

Published: May 8, 2024 14:24

Here’s a small trick that worked for me over the dozen years I led remote teams: at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine. Yes, all of them.

Phenomenal

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/phenomenal/

Published: May 2, 2024 13:56

Here’s a small rhetorical shift you can try: whenever you’re prompted to say “imposter syndrome,” substitute the phrase imposter *phenomenon* instead.

Four factors of thriving

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/four-factors-of-thriving/

Published: April 24, 2024 16:57

In a preprint, Catherine Hicks, Carol Lee, and Morgan Ramsey outline research that identifies four factors for developer thriving: agency, motivation and self-efficacy, a learning culture, and support and belonging.

What you see

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/what-you-see/

Published: April 18, 2024 13:50

Attending to your own attention.

Against hero work

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/against-hero-work/

Published: April 16, 2024 16:24

Ben Cotton has a short and smart post about avoiding “hero” work—that is, the kind of work where you do whatever it takes to get something done, even if what it takes is hard on your spirit, body, and kin.