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Many of us have a natural tendency to let little things pile up.  This gives rise to the notion of the so-called spring cleaning.  The weather turns warm and going outside becomes reasonable, so we take the opportunity to do some kind of deep cleaning. Of course, this may not apply to you.  Perhaps you keep your house ...

I like variety.  In pursuit of this preference, I spend some time management consulting with enterprise clients and some time volunteering for ''office hours'' at a startup incubator.  Generally, this amounts to serving as ''rent-a-CTO'' for startup founders in half hour blocks.  This provides me with the spice of life, I ...

In professional contexts, I think that the word ''standard'' has two distinct flavors.  So when we talk about a ''team standard'' or a ''coding standard,'' the waters muddy a bit.  In this post, I'm going to make the case for a team standard.  But before I do, I think it important to discuss these flavors that I mention.  ...

If you write software, the term ''feedback loop'' might have made its way into your vocabulary.  It charts a slightly indirect route from its conception and into the developer lexicon, though, so let's start with the term's origin.  A feedback loop in general systems uses its output as one of its inputs. Kind of vague, ...