Irrational Exuberance

Irrational Exuberance·10d ago

One thing that bothered me about Imprint’s product after joining was our lack of passkey support.

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Irrational Exuberance·13d ago

Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing...

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Irrational Exuberance·11 Jul 2026

Eight years ago, I wrote about my theory of restoring struggling teams, which came down to four steps: - A team is falling behind if each week their backlog is longer than the week before.

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Irrational Exuberance·11 Jul 2026

I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”, which is the idea that there are many distinct layers of soil, from topsoil all the way down to bedrock, which all combine...

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Irrational Exuberance·15 Jun 2026

From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging, but also educational.

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Irrational Exuberance·27 Apr 2026

Last week, a colleague asked why I’d hired an additional new leader onto an important area rather than expanding an existing leader’s scope to incorporate that area as well.

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Irrational Exuberance·12 Apr 2026

One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate, but that quickly...

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Irrational Exuberance·29 Mar 2026

At some point, you will have learned about the passive voice, where the actor in a sentence is unclear. For example, my software didn’t compile. That’s a good example of the passive voice.

Irrational Exuberance·11 Mar 2026

When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete. Our database migrations were run manually, too.

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Irrational Exuberance·5 Feb 2026

In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation was the area with the second most comments.

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