Tag: leadership

  • We must let the new growth of learning have some sunlight and wind along with their shade and rain!

    We must let the new growth of learning have some sunlight and wind along with their shade and rain!

    My friend Josepha said this in response to concerns about the backlash that the WordPress 6.4 release team could face when faced with a hard decision. Like most hard decisions, it was one that didn’t have any absolute right or an absolute wrong answer. But as the West Wing taught us, there are very few…

  • Four Short Things – 1 October 2023

    Four Short Things – 1 October 2023

    The featured image is based off the prompt A logo for a series called “Four Short Things” in a cartoon style used on Web Stable Diffusion that has been upscaled with Topaz Photo AI. Designing the digital organization …that “actor-oriented” principles are at the heart of designing digital organizations and that, if properly applied, can…

  • Four Short Things – 2 March 2019

    Inspired by O’reilly’s Four Short Links, here are some of the things I’ve seen, read, or watched recently. Clicks are an “unreliable seismograph” for a news article’s value — here’s new research to back it up This is a summary of a report on user behavior on the web. It found a few things that…

  • Failure is a gift

    Failure is a gift

    This reminds me of getting rejected for the first job I applied for in DC.  It was the first interview I ever had with a web development agency for a fulltime position.  Getting the rejection email devastated me. I was ready to accept that I was such a failure, that I would never be able to become…