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Seven Skills to Save Software
Making Change Happen in Complex Software Environments — Jun 28, 2022
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Software Pipelines As Behavioral Prompts
A Golden Path As Example of Changing the Environment — Apr 14, 2022
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Just Tell Me What To Do
The Decision Fatigue Jepordizing API Architectural Thinking — Mar 29, 2022
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Standards as Accelerant
How Standards, Guidelines, and Rules Can Alleviate Decision Fatigue in Healthy IT Governance — Nov 22, 2021
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Pandemic-Led Digital Transformation; You're Doing it Wrong
The problem with mistaking digitalization for digital transformation. — Nov 9, 2021
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Why is there no 'Correct' API Lifecycle?
If an API lifecycle is so important, why can't we agree on the steps it should take? — Nov 2, 2021
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Finding API Governance Balance With Polarity Mapping
Is Centralized or Decentralized structures the answer? Why not both? — Nov 1, 2021
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We Made an API Description, Now What?
Presented at the ASC 2021 virtual event. — Oct 1, 2021
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Overcoming Change Resistance
Addressing the social, as well as the technical, aspects of change — Sep 22, 2021
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Creating Compelling Stories
Moving From Plausible Promises To Systems Change — Sep 10, 2021
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Changing Organizations With Plausible Promises
How To Start Making Your Change Idea A Reality — Sep 3, 2021
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'Power-Over' Strategies And How Reporting Can Backfire
Revisiting the Effectiveness of the 'Kingpin-in-the-Fishbowl' Strategy for Organizational Change — Aug 27, 2021
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Three Systems Theory Approaches to API Governance
Laissez Faire, DP1, and DP2 Approaches to API Ecosystem Quality Improvement — Aug 19, 2021
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One Way to Improve API Guidance
How Proper Copy and Paste Examples Create More Consistent API Designs — Aug 18, 2021
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Machine Learning Prompts Within IDEs
Github's Copilot AI, APIs, and the Irresponsible Prompt Danger — Jul 16, 2021
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What Prompts Should Be In an OpenAPI Tempate?
What does your template encourage you to do? — Jul 14, 2021
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Rethinking the Humble Template
Treating the Template As A Valuable Environmental Prompt — Jun 30, 2021
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To Change Behavior, Change The Environment
Or How Architecture is Law — Jun 25, 2021
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How Versus Why Questions
How Approaching Discussions Differently Changes Everything — Jun 23, 2021
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Blasting Off For New Adventures
I'm Joining Postman — Mar 29, 2021
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WandaVision and This American Moment
The Resonance of the Latest MCU Installment — Feb 8, 2021
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Why AI Success is API Built
The API Imperative for Successful AI Integrations — Jan 8, 2021
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Our Shared Road
Masks, Software Governance, and Traffic Regulation — Aug 5, 2020
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Technology Aphorisms
Laws, Principles, and Yaks, Oh My! — Aug 3, 2020
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Leading People in Crisis
A Collection of Things I'm Trying At This Time — Jul 22, 2020
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APIs are Arrangements of Power
The Necessity of the Inverse Conway Manuever for Modern Software Flow — Jul 9, 2020
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API Management Questions
Answering Questions on API Discovery, Design Consistency, and Dealing with Legacy APIs — May 13, 2020
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A Roadmap for AI Governance
Looking at Machine Learning Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners in Context of Business Transformation — Nov 25, 2019
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Visiting Carbon Offset Sites Prior to the Global Climate Strike
Comparing Offset Earth, Project Wren, and the Eden Reforestation Project — Sep 18, 2019
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Sleep, Creativity, and Being Brilliant Every Day
Other Lessons to Learn From - Volume 02 — Aug 27, 2019
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Agile Antipatterns
Planning Tetris, Feature Factories, and Success Theater: What They Are and How to Fix Them. With Lego. — Aug 2, 2019
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Overcoming Complexity through the Principle of Least Power
Defining an Principled Approach to API Innovation With Layers — Jul 17, 2019
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On Travel
Reconsidering Travel in an Uncertain Age — Jun 21, 2019
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APIs and Digital Transformation
A Mile Marker for Leadership in the Net API Journey — May 6, 2019
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A Plan for Continuous Learning and Win Sharing
Approaching Team Talent Management — May 6, 2019
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Diffusion of Innovation, Digital Transformation, and Dynamic Systems Theory
Other Lessons to Learn From - Volume 01 — Apr 18, 2019
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APIs, Specifications, and Pedantry
What is in a Name? — Feb 27, 2019
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A Manager README for Me
Setting the Context for How I Work with My Team — Feb 14, 2019
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Soft and Hard Power in Software Governance
A Primer on Different Approaches to Process Management — Nov 13, 2018
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A Gardener's Approach to Growing an API Culture
Presented at APIStrat, APICity 2018 — Oct 31, 2018
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Adding SSL to WebAPI.events
Updating a Personal Project to Do the Right Thing — Aug 13, 2018
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Rethinking NPS for API Quality
An Update to the API Governance Blueprint — Jul 10, 2018
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Facebook, Regulation, and Who Controls the Kitchen Sink
The Impending Regulatory Crapstorm — Mar 26, 2018
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The Role of Product Management in API Design
Curating Developer Success through Sound Product Management — Mar 12, 2018
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RIP John Perry Barlow
Cyberspace is Dead. Long Live Cyberspace — Feb 8, 2018
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Three Ways Conways Law Affects API Governance
Presented at API Strat 2016 — Dec 7, 2017
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Making IT Culture Change Work
Questions about API Governance for IT Culture Change — Oct 26, 2017
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API Governance for IT Culture Change
Presented at API World 2017 — Oct 3, 2017
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Logan, Westerns, and a Civilized Internet
Where to Even Start... — Jul 12, 2017
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underconstruction.gif
A Different Declaration of Independence — Jul 4, 2017
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Searching for Systematic Solutions
Because 'Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness' was Already Taken — Apr 13, 2017
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Empathy for All
Reflections on a Rural America Protest Vote — Dec 27, 2016
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Toward a More Perfect Union
Balancing Work with Sorta Work — Dec 3, 2016
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Planting One's Feet
Initial Election Actions — Nov 17, 2016
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Ex Machina
Or Why I'm Not Freaking Out about AI (Yet) — Oct 12, 2016
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What if Developers Aren't Meant to Do API Design?
Struggling with the Question — Sep 6, 2016
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Hiring Blind
Trying Something Different — Aug 2, 2016
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Codified Cultural Bias
Why Facebook's Algorithmic Feed Bothers Me More than Killer AI — Aug 1, 2016
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Consistency AND Cohesion
Why Enterprise API Governance is Necessary — Jun 2, 2016
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Advice for Software Developers
Conversations with Strangers on Buses — May 25, 2016
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A Microservice Primer
Essential Resources to Get Started — Feb 8, 2016
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On API Product
Soul of a New, NEW Machine — Sep 22, 2015
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Tomorrowland is Necessary
A Review — Jun 9, 2015
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APIs will be Invisible
My Past, Present, and Future of RESTful APIs — May 19, 2015
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The Favela vs the Planned Community
Why is API Governance Necessary? — May 12, 2015
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How APIs Drive Business Innovation
APIs are Vital Because it's a Digital World — Apr 20, 2015
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Safe Cultures for Sharing Failures
The Care and Feeding of Storytelling Cultures. — Mar 30, 2015
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Under the Skin (2014)
A Review — Mar 23, 2015
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The Traveling Salesman (2012)
A Review — Mar 17, 2015
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Chappie (2015)
A Review — Mar 7, 2015
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Coherence (2014)
A Review — Mar 4, 2015
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Robocop (2014)
A Review of the Reboot — Mar 4, 2015
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Jupiter Ascending (2015)
A review of the film, Jupiter Ascending. — Feb 19, 2015
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The Zero Theorem (2014)
A Review — Feb 18, 2015
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The Congress (2014)
A Review — Feb 2, 2015
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Storytelling and the Developer's Need to Communicate
The things we tell each other are as important as the things we tell ourselves. — Jan 8, 2015
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The API Economy and the Amen Break
In Defense of the Unassuming Application Mashup — Nov 4, 2014
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Technical Literacy for All
Attempting to Debunk the Perception of Disposable Gadgetry — Oct 29, 2014
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My Daughter's Balloon Stand
A Life Lesson in Risk, Acceptance, and Parenting — Aug 25, 2014
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Detroit and Hypermedia
2014 APICraft Conference Recap — Aug 11, 2014
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Cooling on the Connected Car
Why Keeping Cars Dumb is Smart — Jun 30, 2014
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NFL and the IoT
Let's Play — Jun 16, 2014
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APIs on the Edge
Gluecon 2014 Day 2 Recap — May 31, 2014
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APIs and Better Dev Cultures
Gluecon 2014 Day 1 Recap — May 21, 2014
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Conferences and the Magic Circle
Why Special Events have a Place in an Age of eLearning — May 20, 2014
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On Amsterdam & APIs
The 2014 API Strategy & Practice Conf Recap — Apr 2, 2014
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On Content
Why Build Someone Else's Cathedral? — Mar 24, 2014
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Spike Jonze's Her (2013)
An Orthogonal Reivew — Mar 3, 2014
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Hiring Beyond Keywords
Determining the Skills for Winning Development — Mar 1, 2014
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Recruiter Problems
When it is more Convenient to Spam than Spoon — Feb 24, 2014
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The Fandemonium that Binds
Sport as Story as Civic Unifier — Jan 31, 2014
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Happiness Aggro
Building a Tech Deck for Maximizing Fun — Jan 29, 2014
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Resolve to Systems, Not Goals
Tweaking the Traditional New Year's Resolutions — Jan 23, 2014
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Too Old to Techno?
Finding Peace in an Age-Obsessed Profession — Jan 14, 2014
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The Roar Proceeds a Fall
Class, Tech Elitism, and Opportunity Gulfs — Dec 16, 2013
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Mobile is Dead
Long Live Mobility — Dec 12, 2013
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Designing Interfaces When There Are None
The Coming Challenges of Ubiquitous Computing — Dec 11, 2013
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Less Analyzing, More Synthesizing
A Self-Imposed Vaccum to Suck Less — Dec 1, 2013
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WE Make Stuff
A New Normal Without Users, Only Collaborators — Nov 7, 2013
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Rethinking Retail
A Visit to the JustFab Store — Nov 7, 2013
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Looking Good, Working Fine
Onsite with JustFab — Nov 6, 2013
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Comic Interlude
Making Light of Serious Work — Sep 30, 2013
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Facebook Likes for Fun and Profit
Social Media for NFL Collectible Card Decisions — Sep 5, 2013
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My Google Interview
-and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day(s) — Aug 31, 2013
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Exploring the Hollywood Model
From a Decade of Vox Pop — Aug 2, 2013
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the anyScreen Project
From a Decade of Vox Pop — Aug 1, 2013
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The Malleable, Overnight, Digitally Abundant Future
From a Decade of Vox Pop — Jul 2, 2013
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Blood, Bridges, and Ice Cream
A Signal for Which Bridges are Worth Building — Jul 1, 2013
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Not All Who Wander Are Lost
How to Effectively Develop Software Remotely — Jun 21, 2013
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Lament of the Lone Coder
The Guilt and Fear of the Remote Worker — Jun 7, 2013
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Weaned on Wired Magazine
From a Decade of Vox Pop — Jun 2, 2013
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On Technical Debt
The Physical Weight of Poor Decisions — Jun 1, 2013
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Scrolling is a Hack
Google Glass & the IDE Devs Deserve — May 31, 2013
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The Web is just an APP
Client-Server Desktop Websites are at a Crossroad — May 26, 2013
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Laptop Battles
Finding Peace in an Age-Obsessed Profession — May 22, 2013
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Dispersed Equals Dialogue
Revisiting the Hollywood Model — May 17, 2013
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Triage
Marking a Moment — May 1, 2013
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Networked Tribes, Super-Empowerment, and Resilient Systems
From a Decade of Vox Pop — Apr 22, 2013
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On DevOps
What happened on the way to insanity. — Mar 23, 2013
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So I Am Making an App
The Making of Behind the Making Of — Feb 27, 2013
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Gamification verses Games
How Not to Begin a Gamification Process — Feb 25, 2013
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The Bad Kind of Status Update
A Pep Talk for the Minefield — Feb 21, 2013
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Intro to Gamification
Slides and Text Embedded — Feb 4, 2013
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Document First, Again
Expanding on a Best Practice — Jan 9, 2013