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„Now, I would love to say we operate all day every day with each of these guiding principles, critical behaviors, and visible actions in mind. But this side of heaven, we must still deal with regular human beings who have challenges at home, don't feel well, get up set when they feel disrespected or unheard, and misinterpret the actions of others around them. In other words, we are a real team with real people. Our mission…“ 1/
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„…conversations:
1.) Be Responsible by working with focus, being transparent, acting with discipline, and practicing servant leadership.
2.) Be Effective by using systems thinking, simplifying, making decisions, finding compromise, and acting proactively.
3.) Grow by fostering inquisitiveness, determining intrinsic motivation, reading, teaching, and mentoring compassionately.
4.) Nurture Healthy Relationships by assuming good intent, putting…“ 2/
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„… world to perceive us:
Create meaningful, sustainable, positive, human impact.
Always demonstrate integrity and authenticity.
Act in a way that expresses care, hope, love, and joy!
These guiding principles act as Menlo's decision-making guardrails. We can improve the speed of decision making if we consider that each decision we make is consistent with these guiding…“ 3/
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„Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.Whether or not we want to believe Gandhi's words, we all have to admit we've seen them play out over and over again.“
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„Joy at work seems like such a simple idea - just make everyone happy, right? No! Embracing joy at work means fighting joy's greatest enemy: fear. And unfortunately, leadership based on fear is the status quo for nearly every organization and bureaucracy.“
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuClassics #AlexThuOrgDev
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„All of this, it is imperative to add, takes on special urgency in the face of the change we will confront in the near future. One Oxford study suggests that fully 50 percent of American white-collar jobs are at risk to artificial intelligence in the next twenty years. And that includes the high end of the labor force. As Nicholas Carr said in „The Glass Cage: Automation and Us“, „The intellectual…“ 1/
(Foreword to Rich Sheridan‘s „Chief Joy Officer“)
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… my final recommendation:
„Carl Sagan's best speech about humanity and our place in the universe.“
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DEwSVnBCp9A&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5tD
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„What we need is an admission of how little we actually know about how to pass safely through the next few decades, the courage to examine a wide range of alternative programs and, most of all, a dedication not to dogma but to solutions. Finding any solution will be hard enough.“
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"The magic of books 📚 #CalvinandHobbes“
(Calvin and Hobbes Fan Account - https://x.com/Calvinn_Hobbes/status/1393076160263753730)
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"There are so many variations on the “there are only two hard problems in computer programming...” joke that I’m starting to suspect that programming isn’t actually very easy.“
(@natpryce - https://x.com/natpryce/status/1396905452588474376)
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"That's the main benefit of microservices, you can hate them without having to hate anything else.“
(Richard Wild - https://x.com/richardjwild/status/1396744433954004998)
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"How well can Magnus Carlsen
identify chess positions? David Howell
tested the world champion, and the result is truly mindblowing! #ChessChamps“(Champions Chess Tour - https://x.com/ChampChessTour/status/1387848472741752837)
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"Methodologies is often interpreted to mean -a set of rules to follow that guarantee success-. Methodologies don’t work like programs. People aren’t computers. Every team does XP differently…” - Kent Beck in XP Explained“
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"If the answer doesn’t matter then the question doesn’t matter“
(@kentbeck - https://x.com/KentBeck/status/1399581435443310594)
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"If you introduce tools that are not helpful, you might inadvertently increase team cognitive load.“
(Manuel Pais at Craft Conference 2021)
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"💬 @tastapod shared a great quote from @samnewman ‚It’s better to have things be consistently wrong than inconsistently anything.‘”
(Craft Conference - https://x.com/CraftConf/status/1400074048198033411)
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"Trust can only be given, not requested.“
(Joseph Pelrine at Craft Conf 2021)
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„It is evident that many national institutions and dogmas, however effective they may once have been, are now in need of change. No nation is yet well-fitted to the world of the twenty-first century. The challenge then is not in selective glorification of the past, or in defending the national icons, but in devising a path that will carry us through a time of great mutual peril. To accomplish…“ 1/
Carl Sagan in „Billions & Billions“ (1997)
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Some wise words to keep in mind over the next few months (or years):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM2c33qy16U
With the duration to keep them in mind depending on the bubble size that will be preceding the ‚bang‘ - like in @ewolff’s never-forgot Twitter adage dating back to the beginnings of the 2010s:
„I like 'big bang‘ projects; you need to be there when it is *big* - and need to be gone when it makes *bang*."
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Today, 18.03.2026, I will be holding my „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Observations From a 21-Year Journey“ talk at the JUG Bonn (in person & in German). 🎟️ ➡️ 📚💭🤓
All further details can be found at:
https://onmoderndev.de/en/blog/2026/03/17/in-person-talk-on-18-03-2026-at-jug-bonn/
Hope to see you there, 🖖
AlexPS: All my upcoming talks can be found at https://onmoderndev.de/en/blog/2025/12/10/thoughts-talks-in-2026/
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Today, 17.03.2026, I will be holding my „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Observations From a 21-Year Journey“ talk at the 28th German Perl/Raku Workshop in Berlin (in person & in German). 🎟️ ➡️ 📚💭🤓
All further details can be found at:
Hope to see you there, 🖖
AlexPS: All my upcoming talks can be found at https://onmoderndev.de/en/blog/2025/12/10/thoughts-talks-in-2026/
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„The reason that structural explanations are so important is that only they address the underlying causes of behavior at a level at which patterns of behavior can be changed. Structure produces behavior, and changing underlying structures can produce different patterns of behavior. In this sense, structural explanations are inherently generative. Moreover, since structure in human systems includes…“ 1/
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„All too often, teams in business tend to spend their time fighting for turf, avoiding anything that will make them look bad personally, and pretending that everyone is behind the team's collective strategy-maintaining the appearance of a cohesive team. To keep up the image, they seek to squelch disagreement; people with serious reservations avoid stating them publicly, and joint decisions are watered-down compromises reflecting what everyone…“ 1/
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„If you wanted to design a cave person for survival, ability to contemplate the cosmos would not be a high-ranking design criterion. What is important is the ability to see the saber-toothed tiger over your left shoulder and react quickly. The irony is that, today, the primary threats to our survival, both of our organizations and of our societies, come not from sudden events but from slow, gradual processes: the arms race, environmental…“ 1/
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Friday next week, 13.03.2026, I will be holding my in-depth talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Observations From a 21-Year Journey" at DevLand conference in Rust (in person & in German). 🎟️ ➡️ 📚💭🤓
All further details can be found at:
Hope to see you there, 🖖
AlexPS: All my upcoming talks can be found at https://onmoderndev.de/en/blog/2025/12/10/thoughts-talks-in-2026/
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BBC: "Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards“