Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast: Thinking Clearly When the Clock Is Loud
A few weeks before IMTEX, under real delivery pressure, three books help me stay calm and keep asking the right questions.
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Productivity
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I Built My Running App Before My Morning Run
20 minutes from idea to treadmill with Claude Code. Then 8 days of polish, context engineering, and cleaning up after the AI.
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I Replaced My Productivity Apps With One I Built With AI. Here Is What Worked and What Broke.
A personal, non-commercial project. Concept to working phone app, with the mistakes left in. TL;DR I built one app for notes, databases, tasks, planning, habits, journal,…
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Learn Fast, Grow Faster: Book Review of Gorillas Can Dance
Oct 2, 2026 · @Sumit Most R&D leaders share one quiet worry. Our teams are strong at what we already do, and the world keeps moving…
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Behaviour = MAT: Why Most Change Initiatives Never Change Anything
A few years back, I rolled out a new reporting process for my team. Simple change, everyone agreed it made sense, and in the kickoff meeting…
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What Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Taught Me About Engineering, Leadership, and Life
A thoughtful reflection on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. My biggest takeaway: true quality comes from embracing the process, protecting…
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Managing Projects by Their True Goal: A Theory of Constraints PerspectiveProject Plan : Macro Issue
Should you start your project today or in three months? The answer depends on whether you’re trying to save money or make money—and most organizations get…
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Power of Simplicity
We’re drowning in data and starving for insight. We wear complexity like a badge of honor. Fifty-slide decks. Hundreds of KPIs. Intricate org charts. We think…
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Stop Decorating the Fish: A Review of Cox and Ashlag’s Wake-Up Call
Kristen Cox and Yishai Ashlag wrote *The World of Decorating the Fish* because they kept seeing smart organizations investing massive resources into initiatives that produced marginal…
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My 2025 Reading List: Key Insights
This year's reading explores human behavior, societal structures, and personal effectiveness. Insights challenge us to rethink motivation (Drive, Flow) & irrationality (Predictably Irrational), while exposing hidden…
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