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The Stars We No Longer See
Amusing Ourselves to Death - A Brave New World of AI
Dec 11 • Maarten Dalmijn
The Slipstream Model of Competence
Why a High-Trust Environment Is More Important Than Working With Smart People
Dec 9 • Maarten Dalmijn
Better Than Post-Mortems: The Meta Post-Mortem
Focusing Beyond Singular Incidents
Dec 4 • Maarten Dalmijn

November 2025

CEOs: "Why Are People Not Taking Ownership?"
Too Many Meetings = Too Little Ownership.
Nov 29 • Maarten Dalmijn
Cats, Cucumbers and Story Points
The Toxic Venom of Story Points and Velocity
Nov 24 • Maarten Dalmijn
Keep Developing the Scars of Experience
No Struggle, No Learning
Nov 19 • Maarten Dalmijn
Both Architecture-First and Delivery-First Suck
Complex Is More Dangerous Than Simple: YAGNI And Gall's Law
Nov 15 • Maarten Dalmijn
Forget Better: Focus on Different
Accentuate the Exceptional
Nov 13 • Maarten Dalmijn
Lessons Learned: Working For Myself - 3 Years In
Start Climbing the Ladder of Your Soul
Nov 11 • Maarten Dalmijn

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 • Maarten Dalmijn
Goals Are Not Summaries
Goals Are More Like a Logline Than a Summary
Oct 26 • Maarten Dalmijn
CEOs: Stop Sending Mixed Signals About AI
Until AI Gets Better Expect Things to Get Worse
Oct 23 • Maarten Dalmijn
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