Articles by Tag #culture

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2026 is the New 2016 and Honestly? I Kind of Get It.

remember when you could post a blurry photo of your lunch and get 47 likes from people who genuinely...

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The Cultural Compartmentalization Paradox

Ever been part of a "Cultural Initiative"? It goes something like this: Step Details An...

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From Bureaucracy to Brilliance: How DevOps Culture Can Transform Cloud Governance

Bridge the gap between CloudGovernance.org's 5 Pillars and DevOps culture using the CALMS framework and Westrum organizational model.

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KISS vs DRY in Infrastructure as Code: Why Simple Often Beats Clever

The Scale Gap Problem Every Infrastructure as Code tutorial starts the same way: provision...

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We Need to Talk About How Toxic Dev Culture Has Become (And How We Fix It)

I need to get something off my chest. And honestly, I'm scared to write this. Because the tech...

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Don’t Be Someone People Have to Work With — Be Someone They Want to Work With

There’s a difference between being respected and being liked. But there’s a special kind of power in...

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The Millennial Engineer vs. The Gen Z Developer: A Modern Engineering Merge Conflict

The Great Engineering Face-Off: Precision vs. Agility Imagine a tense face-off inside a...

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Software engineering culture: mindset, teams, and action

How anticipation, empathy, and team structure shape engineering culture, and how AI amplifies...

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High-Trust Teams Ship Faster: The Human Side of Engineering

Most engineering teams think most of their blockers are technical. Spoiler: they're not. Not even...

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Securing Intelligence: The Complete AI Security Series [Video]

This is a video overview of the complete "Securing Intelligence" series on AI security. Look, I...

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AI Security Isn't a Tool Problem, It's a Culture Problem

Over this series, we've covered the technical landscape of AI security: prompt injection attacks,...

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Communication As A Task: A Mindset for Successful Asynchronous Work

Background It's Needless to Say Asynchronous Work is Valuable As engineers, we...

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RAIS (Regular Asynchronous Information Sharing)

Summary Information is held by managers, but they tend to hoard it If you want to run...

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Tech Horror Codex: Technical Debt

The patch is a prayer. The backlog is a tomb. Every system begins with good...

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What is a "Retreat" Suitable for Engineers

Background Current Business Retreats Are you familiar with business retreats?...

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Deep Contribution and Wide Contribution

Summary Deep contribution refers to project work. Wide contribution refers to transject...

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Culture or Lack of Culture: Happiness?

Since its creation, humanity has searched for peace, but hasn't always found the right path to it....

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Being professional goes beyond just technical skills; demonstrating professionalism in behavior is equally, if not more, important. Be kind.

We Need to Talk About How Toxic Dev Culture Has Become (And How...

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Bad and good onboarding

Differences between bad and good onboarding processes and how to achieve the latter

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Reciprocity Intelligence: The Essential Core Skill for Modern Work

Reciprocity intelligence allows us to grow, prevents burnout, and empowers us to be better teammates.

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We Need to Talk About How Toxic Dev Culture Has Become (And How...

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Rethinking Responsibility: Empowering Engineers

Talking about the responsibility of programmers is tricky. It’s easy to slip into judgment or create...

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The Cost of Inconsistency (And the Power of Predictability)

Expectation Roulette One endpoint expected: active=true Another wanted: is_active=1 And...

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The Power of the Duo: Why Strategic Partnerships are the Secret to Resilient Teams

In the modern workplace, we most often focus on reducing the bus factor, but one-on-one...

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Why Fixers Get Praise but Preventers Get Ignored

We often forget an old truth: we don't appreciate what we have until we lose it. Nowhere is this more...

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Why Distributed Leadership is More Efficient than Command-and-Control

I spent a decade being a professional reminder. It was a relic of a factory age that has no business in a room full of creative engineers.

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Why Transformations Never Succeed: Even When They Do

We all read the daily announcements about another major company launching a sweeping transformation....

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Are we in the age of the hyper-founder?

Ahnii! You’ve seen it: a name, then a string of domains. Russell Jones | goformx.com |...

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Neurons Play Doom: The Ethical Problem Labs Can't Ignore

Two hundred thousand lab‑grown human neurons sit on a microelectrode array in Melbourne, wired into a...

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What It Takes to Build a High-Performing Team

Trust, perfectionism, vision, partnership, autonomy, and purpose - what it takes to move from boss to...

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