Empathy Architecture
WWIII started, Fascism is rampant and unchallenged, history effectively dead. AI Bros are buying and selling morality and the same guys get the contracts while the Epstein Files are disqualifying humanity. UCLA calls it a lack of narrative coherence. We can't see ahead. Not really. Not anymore.
Empathy Architecture
That doesn’t mean everyone is ready or willing to embrace the change. For evident reasons I write and speak about a lot, accepting change…
Execution Debt
If I had a dollar for every time that a tech leader with their heart in the right place, stopped their efforts to better the developer’s lives -and ultimately productivity- because they were told off by HR, I’d afford to donate our software forever.
2025 Is it the year where we sort out this death of Agile debate?
Execution Debt
"Looking at the frontrunners in Agilty - Google, Spotify, GM or Amazon - none of the Big 4 consultancies can say "yes, that's me, I wrote this magical 50M- strategy-deck" Duena Blomstrom 2018
Execution Debt
A classic enterprise phrase hides a deeper truth: decisions made to avoid blame quietly accumulate Human Debt. This essay revisits why “nobody gets fired for buying IBM” was never about safety - and why courage, not risk aversion, is the real competitive advantage.
Empathy Architecture
Putting devs back at the helmet will be hard - let me spell it out to the techies -at the risk they hate me for it: when it comes to this pivotal moment in the life of your craft, you can do better than this outrage and help build the next era of tech
Human Debt™
Forget AI in the computer industry (where indeed the discourse is complex as its appearance shakes the very foundation of software crafting, engineering, product and design alike), what about it everywhere else? How does it affect every other employee in every other industry and what’s first...
Navigating multiple views of neurodiversity whilst designing ways to maintain high levels of empathy for all has been exceptionally difficult in the ever more divisive -and divided- fractured organisational landscape of today. Speaking to smart people-leaders has helped me see new facets of...
Psychological Safety Research
We may have killed Psychological Safety y’all and it may not return until the “new guard” takes over completely. This sadly, is not an overstatement or click-bait, but...
Human Debt™
Let's be clear once more: this whole "return to the office" (RTO) charade is absolute insanity. In this (exceptionally indignant and mercifully short) episode of our Secret Society for Human Work Advocates and Human Debt Fighters Podcast, Dr. Allessandria Pollizzi and I break it down in much...
I’m very lucky. I get to speak to incredible people who tirelessly think and feel all day. Some of these conversations are recorded and you can find them in our podcasts. Here’s what you may have missed on there of late: Karen Ferris and I spoke about her new “Be Remarkable” book on resilience...
