Lewin's teachings and modern DevOps
22 Dec 2025When we talk about DevOps transformation, the conversation usually starts with tools. Kubernetes. CI/CD pipelines. Cloud platforms, and nowadays LLMs.
Read more...Hacking Eisenhower Matrix
20 Dec 2025The Eisenhower Matrix is one of those productivity tools everyone knows. It’s neat, simple, and widely taught.
Read more...Scratchpad to Database
26 Nov 2025I love the terminal, but I still spend half my day in Sublime Text. When an idea appears I hit Cmd+N to open a blank, unsaved buffer and start typing.
Read more...Why Psychological Safety is a Productivity Metric
25 Nov 2025In this series, we’ve explored the visible friction in software teams: the flow killers, the product mistakes, and the technical debt that slows everything down.
Read more...Task Paralysis?
23 Nov 2025Most productivity tools work the same way. They rely on capturing everything into one big Master List, sorting and labeling it, and hoping that structure will lead to execution.
Read more...Rework, Cognitive Load, and Knowledge Loss
19 Nov 2025In the first post, I introduced nine wastes that hide in software teams. In the second, we looked at the flow killers that destroy momentum. In the third, we covered the product wastes that derail your work.
Read more...Are You Building the Wrong Thing?
11 Nov 2025In the first post, I introduced nine wastes that hide in software teams. In the second, we looked at the flow killers that destroy momentum.
Read more...Wastes That Kill Your Flow
03 Nov 2025In my last post, I introduced nine wastes that hide in software teams.
Read more...Nine Wastes Hiding in Your Software Team
24 Oct 2025Measuring the productivity of software engineering teams is notoriously difficult and can often backfire. However, we don’t need complex metrics to recognise when time and effort are being wasted.
Read more...Blazing fast search
06 Sep 2025When I started building medi, my command-line notes manager, the goal was a fast, local-first workflow. But how fast is fast? Could it stay fast at scale? With a database of thousands of notes, would search grind to a halt?