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Lead From the Front.

When I was a kid, my dad had three guidelines he’d constantly remind me of. Now he and I can only remember two of them. So we remind each other to: 1) make eye contact, 2) be aware of what’s going on around you, and 3) that third thing.


“Make Eye Contact.”

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Do you know when to escalate your communication channel? glennburnside.com/pick-up-the-ph…


“My new issue of ‘Compute!’ Magazine just arrived!” - 3rd grade me

I dare you to demonstrate how old you are in "developer years" in one sentence without stating any actual years



How did reach a point where I have four computers in use sitting on my desk for a “normal” work day?


Help your clients to feel good about your projects because it's their idea to feel good about it! glennburnside.com/managing-the-e… #consulting #leadership #negotiation


Start with a well-ordered monolith. Discover which parts of the system actually need to run as an external service. Your first guess on how to divide up your services is going to be wrong anyway. A well-ordered monolith can buy your team a whole lot of runway.


Don't get trade away accuracy for precision! separate your Must work from your Could work. glennburnside.com/but-first-i-ne… # consulting #productivity


Better outcomes start with better up front contracts. glennburnside.com/up-front-contr…


Trying to live up to my commitment to myself to publish more content, and so I'm reviving some things I've written in the past and moving them off Medium - glennburnside.com/teach-like-a-b…


Make the implicit explicit, in whatever you’re doing. Everyone else involved might never notice, but their experience with you will be better for it.


I have two episodes of The Expanse left to go, and I’ve decided the best way to make it last as long as possible is….to read the books.


It must be “bring your dog to work” day.

glennburnside's tweet image. It must be “bring your dog to work” day.

Had a dream last night I was running a @SpartanRace , in the dark, in my street clothes. Then I got lost on the course, went home to take a nap, came back to finish, couldn’t remember where I was on the course, had to start over - With a wheelbarrow of rocks. Woke up exhausted.


Somewhere between all this “web3”/NFT nonsense and the cargo culting around event sourcing and micro services, can we just get back to building simple software that actually does something useful for end users?


Estimating software development is silly. Stop doing it. Put a right-sized team together and get started. Build things that work and add value from day one. Release often. Keep adding value. Why is our industry plagued with these inane practices?


I just binged three trade paperbacks of @AhoyComicMags #thewrongearth and it is the best thing I’ve read in years. Go read it, now.


Cloud and SaaS are letting down small businesses and organizations. It costs too much and is too complicated for the typical SMB or non-profit organization to do what they need to do on a daily basis. It shouldn't be this hard.


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Mark Zuckerberg owes 30 burpees…


What is all this “web3” talk about? Is there something there, or is this another round of techno-ponzi hype? I don’t get it.


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