December 2025

The Stars We No Longer See

Amusing Ourselves to Death - A Brave New World of AI

Dec 11, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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The Slipstream Model of Competence

Why a High-Trust Environment Is More Important Than Working With Smart People

Dec 9, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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Better Than Post-Mortems: The Meta Post-Mortem

Focusing Beyond Singular Incidents

Dec 4, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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November 2025

CEOs: "Why Are People Not Taking Ownership?"

Too Many Meetings = Too Little Ownership.

Nov 29, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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Cats, Cucumbers and Story Points

The Toxic Venom of Story Points and Velocity

Nov 24, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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Keep Developing the Scars of Experience

No Struggle, No Learning

Nov 19, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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Both Architecture-First and Delivery-First Suck

Complex Is More Dangerous Than Simple: YAGNI And Gall's Law

Nov 15, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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Forget Better: Focus on Different

Accentuate the Exceptional

Nov 13, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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Lessons Learned: Working For Myself - 3 Years In

Start Climbing the Ladder of Your Soul

Nov 11, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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October 2025

The Best Product Managers Optimize For Reversibility and Optionality

A Product Manager's Superpower: Worrying About the Right Things at the Right Time

Oct 29, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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Goals Are Not Summaries

Goals Are More Like a Logline Than a Summary

Oct 26, 2025 • Maarten Dalmijn

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