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Monthly Archives: December 2017

Ben Rady and the Powers of Two

Ben Rady wrote a post pondering if there’s special inflection point when you have exactly two developers. I think there is. On the benefit side of the equation there’s a step function when your number of collaborators go from 0 to 1. While more people on a team brings the potential for more benefits there […]

Postel’s law and communication

Michael Feathers shared what he called his abstract defense of Postel’s law: Open acceptance allows learning. Narrowness & restriction are valuable for protection, but they have opportunity costs that are largely hidden. It pays to investigate them to make informed design choices in every system – social & technical. I think Michael’s defense can be […]

Practicing empathetic communication

Thanks to a recommendation from Benjamin Mitchell I’ve been listening to the Feeling Good Podcast by Dr. David Burns. Dr. Burns has what he calls The Five Secrets Effective Communication. At last week’s London Organizational Learning Meetup we were able to get a bit of practice applying these secrets, in particular those related to empathy. Dr. […]