Wake Claude Before You Do
Claude's usage blocks start with your first message. A tiny ping at 7:00 moves your resets to 12:00 and 17:00: three blocks in your workday, not two.
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productivity
Doing the work that matters instead of more work.
2026
Cut the Token Bill on Both Ends
Caveman shrinks what the agent says back, RTK shrinks what your terminal pipes in. More room in the same context window.
Skills Over Agents
Why Claude Code skills beat specialized agents. On-demand context, not the model, decides quality. Build a skill library that travels with your code.
The Levels of AI Adoption
A six-level ladder of AI adoption, from copy-paste prompts to agentic teams and AI-native workflows. Where most companies stall, and how to climb.
Inside the .claude Folder
A hands-on tour of Claude Code's project folder. What rules, skills, agents, hooks, and settings each do, and how they fit together.
2025
What Success Means to Me
Success is waking up knowing that what you do makes the people around you, and yourself, happier. Consistency over perfection.
Ship, Show, Ask
Not every change needs the same review. Ship, Show, Ask matches the process to the risk, without losing quality or collaboration.
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport's philosophy is not about rejecting technology but using it with intention, to reclaim focus and reduce anxiety.
2024
What Is Waterfall?
Waterfall moves through fixed stages and gives no feedback until each one ends. Why that clashes with how software really evolves.
Deployments on Fridays
The panic around deploying on Fridays. Does banning a whole day of delivering value to your customers actually make sense?
The Lean Startup
Most startups fail, and many of those failures are preventable. The approach that changed how companies build and launch.
2023
Invincible
Marcos Vazquez combines stoic philosophy with modern psychology to train your mind for clarity, determination, and discipline in the face of adversity.
Never Ending Loop
It is hard to get to bed with a blank mind when you are already on the next reading, talk or post. On the never ending loop.
Learned Helplessness
Learned helplessness sets in when someone accepts their powerlessness and stops trying to escape. What it is, and how it breaks.
Effective Remote Work
An effective remote work environment is about treating everyone as remote, with everyone in mind having the same level, equality, and information.
Accelerate
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Have You Always Been Like This?
Always reading, writing and speaking? The short answer is no. How I ended up here, and what changed along the way.
Adapt or die
Told through the story of People First IT, this book lays out The Algorithm of Success for changing every part of an organization.
2022
Ignoring Scrum to Get More Agile?
Boring meetings are killing agile. When the process stops helping the team and starts owning it instead.
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres on a decision-making process that keeps product teams in touch with customers and improving what they ship.
The Great CEO Within
How to scale from startup to company with a system of accountability, real problem solving and transparent feedback.
The Project Management Triangle
A triangle of time, quality and cost. it's an indicator that these three parameters are interconnected. You can fix one or two of them, but not three.
Bikeshedding
Bikeshedding explains why teams waste time on trivial decisions while ignoring complex, important ones. Learn to recognize and avoid it.
2021
Leadership is Language
Marquet dives into the sinking of the El Faro and surfaces with new ideas on how the language we use defines our leadership.
Red Work vs Blue Work
Blue Work and Red Work, the two modes David Marquet describes in Leadership is Language. Different mindsets, and different languages.
Peopleware
Software development is about people: when, how and where they work best together. Not about languages, tools or fast machines.
Open-Source Software
A practical guide to open-source software: its benefits, how to start contributing, and why sharing code accelerates your career growth.
Zombie Scrum Survival Guide
Zombie Scrum Survival Guide reveals why Scrum runs aground and shows how to supercharge your Scrum outcomes, while having a lot more fun along the way.
Who moved my cheese?
This book presents a tale inside the main story that consists of 4 characters: two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little persons, Hem and Haw.
2020
The Process Itself Is the Goal
No goal should be an achievement on its own, but the process itself that helps us to go in the direction of these goals.
Scrum
Sutherland on Scrum: how to define what you are trying to achieve, set up the team for it, and track progress to done.
High Output Management
Andy Grove's Intel classic on managerial leverage, meetings, decisions and how to get the most output from a team.
2019
How to Improve Your Tech-Talk (or Any Other Presentation)
We have all sat through a talk that was hard to follow. How to prepare and deliver a tech talk people actually want to hear.
Atomic Habits
You do not need to think big to change your life. James Clear shows that real change comes from hundreds of small decisions.
