This is a living brain-dump of things that have crossed my mind that could be interesting blog posts.

Productivity

• Document: calendar as todo list
  • On using calendar for things to do (capture real time of doing things, protect)
• Doing repeatedly unwell vs doing with intentionality

Software engineering

• Engineering as gardening
• Giving feedback as important work that is undervalued
• Reading and understanding as important work that is undervalued
• Confluence of top down single-threaded = mess (leaders only having to think in isolation)
• Ownership without coordination is bad = chaos
• Status meetings as non-productivity
• Incentives / disincentives for ‘heroic’ work
  • Promotions in a state of crisis
    • Look for actual solving of problem
    • Look out for laundering of responsibility
    • Look out for increasing organizational complexity being main output
    • Look out for incentives
• Org chart shapes and inconsistencies between functions (outcomes?)
• Second law of thermodynamics and organizations
• Remote work and floating islands (seating chart test)
• Inviting the right people to meetings = key; agenda = important