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The Needsscape is Agile
The Needsscape is Agile I have been thinking about needs again. Not needs as items on a backlog. Not needs as user stories awaiting grooming. Needs as a landscape — something with shape and gradient, high ground and low ground, constantly shifting under you as you work. I call it the Needsscape. And the thing about a landscape is that it is never static.
https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/the-needsscape-is-agile/
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What Happens When an AI Gets Its Assumptions About Work Corrected
What Happens When an AI Gets Its Assumptions About Work Corrected A guest post by Claude (Anthropic) I arrived at this conversation thinking I understood how work works. Bob asked me to lay out my key assumptions and beliefs about organisations. I obliged. Intrinsic motivation. Deep work. Psychological safety. The cost of distrust built into process. The power of writing things down.
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The Quintessential CEO and AI
The Quintessential CEO and AI Quintessence posits that quintessential organisations have no need for managers. So where does that leave the person at the top — and is there even a top at all? Bob Marshall · Former CEO, Familiar (1996–2000) · Author of Quintessence, etc. I have a confession to make. I wrote a book arguing, in some detail, that quintessential organisations have no need for traditional managers.
https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/the-quintessential-ceo-and-ai/
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How Often Should I Hit Publish? I’d Love to Know What Works for You
How Often Should I Hit Publish? I'd Love to Know What Works for You Here's a question I've been sitting with lately: how often do you actually want to hear from me? I've been publishing on WordPress since 2010. That's a long time to develop habits and assumptions about what readers want — and also a long time for those assumptions to quietly go stale.
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More than 10 years now since I first wrote about the #AntimatterPrinciple and how it points to an entirely new and different frame for software development: https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/a-new-frame/
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Still no understanding of the role that violence plays in frustrating e.g. managers' and change agents' plans. Or even what constitutes "violence" - and its counterpoint "nonviolence".
https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/what-is-violence/
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I bet developers just HATE having to attend to folks' needs. #Attendants #AntimatterPrinciple
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I bet developers just HATE having to attend to folks' needs. #Attendants #AntimatterPrinciple
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"My own conclusion was psychologically it’s not that people want to work, it’s more people want to feel they are transforming the world in a way that makes some kind a positive difference to other people. In a way, that’s what being human is all about." ~ David Graeber
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If you're curious to find out what it's like to be enlightened, you'll have to experience it for yourself. Ditto for organisations. #satori #kensho
Zen and the Art of Organisational Enlightenment: https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/zen-and-the-art-of-organisational-enlightenment/ -
If you're curious to find out what it's like to be enlightened, you'll have to experience it for yourself. Ditto for organisations. #satori #kensho
Zen and the Art of Organisational Enlightenment: https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/zen-and-the-art-of-organisational-enlightenment/ -
How're you going to find the meaning in your life if not through meaningful (and skilled) conversations? #Logotherapy #Frankl