Puzzles?

the post you didn't ask for

I wrote over fifty blog posts last year - all with the same titles as Taylor Swift songs. In a year, just a few people noticed. This year, I decided to go less main stream, but still keep the spirit of a genius singer songwriter and use John Prine songs - I was too predictable, and two people noticed after three posts.

Now, neither of you will ever get to experience the post that was coming for The Great Compromise.

The Hunt

I love puzzles. Solving puzzles is (to me) a lot like writing software. There’s pattern matching, there’s trial and error, there’s learning from failure, and sometimes - if you’re lucky, the answer is obvious.

Daily programming hasn’t been in my life for several years now, but these days, I enjoy the challenge of debugging teams, and solving the puzzles that humans bring to the workplace when they interact. My teams hear me say often that behavior comes from motivation - the puzzle I solve on an almost daily basis is to figure out what is motivating people to behave t…