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AI

• Building Your Data Foundation: The Essential First Step Before Adopting AI | 12/14/25
• Why Your AI Strategy Must Be a Data Strategy First | 2/3/26
• Let Go, Let Agents: A New Shape of the Workday | 2/12/26
• Are We in the Jackson Pollock Phase of AI? | 2/22/26
• Run Your Own AI Stack for Budget Season: Ollama + OpenCode for Leaders | 2/28/26
• Your Personal Board of Directors as AI Agents for Budget Planning | 3/1/26
• Building a Personal AI Environment with ChatGPT Projects | 3/2/26
• Building an Organizational Digital Twin: A Modern Approach to Leadership Insight | 3/3/26
• Designing a Personal Board of Directors Using ChatGPT Projects | 3/3/26
• Be Excellent to Each Other: Building Your Council of Agentic Advisors | 3/4/26
• What I Believe About AI | 3/12/26
• Your AI Program Is a Mirror | 3/18/26
• The Helmet Rule Nobody Wants to Enforce | 3/19/26
• The AI Project Will Lose to the Data Project | 3/22/26
• The Marty McFly Problem | 3/24/26
• AI Agents Won't Fix What Bad Management Already Broke | 3/26/26
• Set-Based Design Was Always the Right Answer. Now It's Also the Affordable One. | 3/29/26
• The Cerulean AI Architecture: Why Ready is the Only Production Standard That Matters | 3/31/26

AI Agents

• Let Go, Let Agents: A New Shape of the Workday | 2/12/26
• Run Your Own AI Stack for Budget Season: Ollama + OpenCode for Leaders | 2/28/26
• Your Personal Board of Directors as AI Agents for Budget Planning | 3/1/26
• Designing a Personal Board of Directors Using ChatGPT Projects | 3/3/26
• Be Excellent to Each Other: Building Your Council of Agentic Advisors | 3/4/26

AI Strategy

• Demystifying AI Strategy: You're Further Along Than You Think | 10/21/25
• Building Your Data Foundation: The Essential First Step Before Adopting AI | 12/14/25
• Why Your AI Strategy Must Be a Data Strategy First | 2/3/26
• What I Believe About AI | 3/12/26
• You're Doing AI the Same Way You Did Cloud | 3/14/26

Advent of Code

• Advent of Code: Uniting Developers in a Festive Coding Challenge | 12/3/24

Analytics

• Implications of Oracle's new MCP server for Analysts | 8/2/25

Artificial Intelligence

• Demystifying AI Strategy: You're Further Along Than You Think | 10/21/25
• Why Your AI Strategy Must Be a Data Strategy First | 2/3/26
• Let Go, Let Agents: A New Shape of the Workday | 2/12/26
• Are We in the Jackson Pollock Phase of AI? | 2/22/26
• Run Your Own AI Stack for Budget Season: Ollama + OpenCode for Leaders | 2/28/26
• Your Personal Board of Directors as AI Agents for Budget Planning | 3/1/26
• Building a Personal AI Environment with ChatGPT Projects | 3/2/26
• Building an Organizational Digital Twin: A Modern Approach to Leadership Insight | 3/3/26
• Designing a Personal Board of Directors Using ChatGPT Projects | 3/3/26
• What I Believe About AI | 3/12/26
• The Cerulean AI Architecture: Why Ready is the Only Production Standard That Matters | 3/31/26

Blueprint 4D

• The Oracle Cloud Experience at Blueprint 4D 2024 | 5/15/24

Book Review

• Book Review: The 6 Types of Working Genius | 5/16/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Intro & Chapter 1 | 6/12/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Chapter 2 | 7/2/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Chapter 3 | 7/11/24

Book Study

• Book Review: The 6 Types of Working Genius | 5/16/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Intro & Chapter 1 | 6/12/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Chapter 2 | 7/2/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Chapter 3 | 7/11/24

Business

• Navigating Uncertainty: The Art of Quick, Informed Decisions in Business | 10/19/24

CTO

• A Blueprint for Engineering Leadership: The "CTO's Perfect Week" | 9/8/25

Career Change

• New Team New Focus: Embracing the Oracle Ecosystem - A New Adventure Awaits | 12/15/23

Career Development

• Book Review: The 6 Types of Working Genius | 5/16/24
• ​Are You Hiring for Skill or for Range? | 8/19/25

Cloud

• The Oracle Cloud Experience at Blueprint 4D 2024 | 5/15/24

Cloud Computing

• You're Doing AI the Same Way You Did Cloud | 3/14/26

Coding Challenge

• Advent of Code: Uniting Developers in a Festive Coding Challenge | 12/3/24

Collaboration

• Beyond the Council of No: Why Data Teams Must Embrace the Bazaar | 12/17/25

Communication

• The Power of a Shared Language: What Concerts Can Teach Us About Building Great Software | 8/29/25

Community

• Advent of Code: Uniting Developers in a Festive Coding Challenge | 12/3/24

Conference

• TribalNet 2025: Day 1 Notes | 9/15/25
• TribalNet 2025: Day 2 Notes | 9/16/25
• TribalNet 2025: Day 3 Notes | 9/17/25

Culture

• The Power of a Shared Language: What Concerts Can Teach Us About Building Great Software | 8/29/25
• Gumption Does Not Compile | 3/11/26

Data

• Building Your Data Foundation: The Essential First Step Before Adopting AI | 12/14/25
• Beyond the Council of No: Why Data Teams Must Embrace the Bazaar | 12/17/25
• Unlocking ERP, HCM, and SCM Insights with Oracle’s Autonomous Database and MCP | 1/26/26
• Why Your AI Strategy Must Be a Data Strategy First | 2/3/26
• Unlocking Modern Applications with JSON in Oracle AI Database 26ai | 2/5/26
• Replacing MongoDB with Oracle Database: A Practical Path to Fewer Systems and More Capability | 3/5/26

Data Governance

• Why Your AI Strategy Must Be a Data Strategy First | 2/3/26
• What I Believe About AI | 3/12/26

Data Warehouse

• Unlocking ERP, HCM, and SCM Insights with Oracle’s Autonomous Database and MCP | 1/26/26
• Unlocking Modern Applications with JSON in Oracle AI Database 26ai | 2/5/26
• Replacing MongoDB with Oracle Database: A Practical Path to Fewer Systems and More Capability | 3/5/26

Databases

• Unleashing the Power of pg_vector in PostgreSQL | 4/15/24
• PostgreSQL's Time-Series Capabilities Grow with Tembo's pg_timeseries Extension | 5/25/24

Decision Making

• Navigating Uncertainty: The Art of Quick, Informed Decisions in Business | 10/19/24
• Stop Confusing Effort with Momentum: Why Your Hardest Working Teams Still Move Slowly | 12/13/25

Design

• Translating Artillery to Innovation: Human-Centered Design in Action | 10/18/24
• Set-Based Design Was Always the Right Answer. Now It's Also the Affordable One. | 3/29/26

Design Thinking

• Ditch the Tech Tunnel Vision: Why Your IT Team Needs Design Thinking | 10/25/24

DevOps

• Weekly Links 2024-10-11 | 10/11/24
• You're Doing AI the Same Way You Did Cloud | 3/14/26

Developer Productivity

• Thoughts on the Core 4 Developer Productivity Framework | 1/15/25

Development

• The Critical Choice of Proximity: The Strategic Value of Being Available | 11/2/25

Digital Transformation

• You're Doing AI the Same Way You Did Cloud | 3/14/26

Ecosystem

• New Team New Focus: Embracing the Oracle Ecosystem - A New Adventure Awaits | 12/15/23

Engineering Leadership

• A Blueprint for Engineering Leadership: The "CTO's Perfect Week" | 9/8/25

Enterprise Technology

• You're Doing AI the Same Way You Did Cloud | 3/14/26

Event

• The Oracle Cloud Experience at Blueprint 4D 2024 | 5/15/24

Extensions

• Unleashing the Power of pg_vector in PostgreSQL | 4/15/24
• PostgreSQL's Time-Series Capabilities Grow with Tembo's pg_timeseries Extension | 5/25/24

Frameworks

• Thoughts on the Core 4 Developer Productivity Framework | 1/15/25

Hiring

• ​Are You Hiring for Skill or for Range? | 8/19/25

Human-Centered Design

• Translating Artillery to Innovation: Human-Centered Design in Action | 10/18/24

Humane AI

• The Helmet Rule Nobody Wants to Enforce | 3/19/26

IT

• Ditch the Tech Tunnel Vision: Why Your IT Team Needs Design Thinking | 10/25/24
• Implications of Oracle's new MCP server for Analysts | 8/2/25

Innovation

• Translating Artillery to Innovation: Human-Centered Design in Action | 10/18/24
• Ditch the Tech Tunnel Vision: Why Your IT Team Needs Design Thinking | 10/25/24
• Gumption Does Not Compile | 3/11/26

Leadership

• The Power of Positive Assumptions: Embracing Theory Y Management | 6/8/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Intro & Chapter 1 | 6/12/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Chapter 2 | 7/2/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Chapter 3 | 7/11/24
• Navigating Uncertainty: The Art of Quick, Informed Decisions in Business | 10/19/24
• Productivity Picket Fence: Maker Edition | 12/16/24
• Productivity Picket Fence: Manager Edition | 12/18/24
• "Who's Got the Monkey?" - The 1974 Article That Still Nails Modern Management Problems | 1/8/25
• TribalNet 2025: Day 1 Notes | 9/15/25
• TribalNet 2025: Day 2 Notes | 9/16/25
• TribalNet 2025: Day 3 Notes | 9/17/25
• The 24-Hour Rule: A Simple Practice for Emotional Resilience | 9/30/25
• From Crisis to Collaboration: Leading IT Out of Covert Conflict and Power Trips | 10/10/25
• The Essential Role of Firsthand Knowledge in Modern IT Leadership | 10/11/25
• Moving From an Orchestration-heavy to Leadership-heavy Management Role | 10/13/25
• The Critical Choice of Proximity: The Strategic Value of Being Available | 11/2/25
• Executing a Trust Reset in the Wake of Organizational Change | 11/9/25
• From Vision to Victory: Building Your Staircase to Success | 11/20/25
• Stop Saying "I'm Not Technical": Why A West Point Leadership Priniciple Applies to Every Corporate Role (West Point Leadership Principle 2) | 12/5/25
• Stop Confusing Effort with Momentum: Why Your Hardest Working Teams Still Move Slowly | 12/13/25
• West Point Leadership Principle 1: Know Yourself and Seek Self-Improvement | 1/1/26
• West Point Leadership Principle 3: Seek Responsibility and Take Responsibility for Your Actions | 1/5/26
• West Point Leadership Principle 4: Set the Example | 1/12/26
• The Invisible Ceiling: Why Technical Excellence Isn’t Enough | 1/14/26
• West Point Leadership Principle 5: Know Your People and Look Out for Their Well-Being | 1/22/26
• The Hidden Cost of Fragile IT Organizations | 1/23/26
• There’s Always One More Thing You Can Do | 2/7/26
• Innovation Is a Muscle | 2/18/26
• What I Believe About AI | 3/12/26
• The Prodigal Son's Brother Had My Job Title | 3/22/26
• AI Agents Won't Fix What Bad Management Already Broke | 3/26/26
• Support Is a Structure, Not a Feeling | 4/2/26

MCP Server

• Implications of Oracle's new MCP server for Analysts | 8/2/25

Management

• The Power of Positive Assumptions: Embracing Theory Y Management | 6/8/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Intro & Chapter 1 | 6/12/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Chapter 2 | 7/2/24
• Chapter by Chapter: The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, and Sarah Sentes - Chapter 3 | 7/11/24
• A Blueprint for Engineering Leadership: The "CTO's Perfect Week" | 9/8/25
• The 24-Hour Rule: A Simple Practice for Emotional Resilience | 9/30/25
• From Crisis to Collaboration: Leading IT Out of Covert Conflict and Power Trips | 10/10/25
• The Essential Role of Firsthand Knowledge in Modern IT Leadership | 10/11/25
• Moving From an Orchestration-heavy to Leadership-heavy Management Role | 10/13/25
• Executing a Trust Reset in the Wake of Organizational Change | 11/9/25

Methodology

• Space Camp and Their Approach to Software Development | 5/17/24

Observability

• Weekly Links 2024-10-11 | 10/11/24

OpenCode

• Let Go, Let Agents: A New Shape of the Workday | 2/12/26
• Run Your Own AI Stack for Budget Season: Ollama + OpenCode for Leaders | 2/28/26
• Your Personal Board of Directors as AI Agents for Budget Planning | 3/1/26

Oracle

• New Team New Focus: Embracing the Oracle Ecosystem - A New Adventure Awaits | 12/15/23
• The Oracle Cloud Experience at Blueprint 4D 2024 | 5/15/24
• Implications of Oracle's new MCP server for Analysts | 8/2/25
• Unlocking ERP, HCM, and SCM Insights with Oracle’s Autonomous Database and MCP | 1/26/26
• Unlocking Modern Applications with JSON in Oracle AI Database 26ai | 2/5/26
• Replacing MongoDB with Oracle Database: A Practical Path to Fewer Systems and More Capability | 3/5/26

Organizational Design

• Stop Confusing Effort with Momentum: Why Your Hardest Working Teams Still Move Slowly | 12/13/25
• The Hidden Cost of Fragile IT Organizations | 1/23/26

Ownership

• Ownership vs. Belonging: Rethinking Our Relationship with Services and Products | 6/3/24

Personal

• The Prodigal Son's Brother Had My Job Title | 3/22/26
• Support Is a Structure, Not a Feeling | 4/2/26

PostgreSQL

• Unleashing the Power of pg_vector in PostgreSQL | 4/15/24
• PostgreSQL's Time-Series Capabilities Grow with Tembo's pg_timeseries Extension | 5/25/24

Problem Solving

• Translating Artillery to Innovation: Human-Centered Design in Action | 10/18/24
• Ditch the Tech Tunnel Vision: Why Your IT Team Needs Design Thinking | 10/25/24

Process

• Space Camp and Their Approach to Software Development | 5/17/24

Product Management

• Ownership vs. Belonging: Rethinking Our Relationship with Services and Products | 6/3/24

Productivity

• Obligatory Post on Productivity | 8/22/22
• Book Review: The 6 Types of Working Genius | 5/16/24
• "Who's Got the Monkey?" - The 1974 Article That Still Nails Modern Management Problems | 1/8/25
• A Blueprint for Engineering Leadership: The "CTO's Perfect Week" | 9/8/25
• Stop Confusing Effort with Momentum: Why Your Hardest Working Teams Still Move Slowly | 12/13/25

Productivity Series

• Productivity Picket Fence: Maker Edition | 12/16/24
• Productivity Picket Fence: Manager Edition | 12/18/24
• Productivity: Laying the Daily Foundation | 9/24/25
• Team Capacity: How Two Priorities Protect Your Team's Focus | 9/25/25

Proficiency

• Stop Saying "I'm Not Technical": Why A West Point Leadership Priniciple Applies to Every Corporate Role (West Point Leadership Principle 2) | 12/5/25

Project Management

• Your AI Program Is a Mirror | 3/18/26
• The AI Project Will Lose to the Data Project | 3/22/26

Prompt-engineering

• Be Excellent to Each Other: Building Your Council of Agentic Advisors | 3/4/26

Psychology

• The Power of Positive Assumptions: Embracing Theory Y Management | 6/8/24

Recruiting

• ​Are You Hiring for Skill or for Range? | 8/19/25

Responsible AI

• The Helmet Rule Nobody Wants to Enforce | 3/19/26

SRE

• Weekly Links 2024-10-11 | 10/11/24

Services

• Ownership vs. Belonging: Rethinking Our Relationship with Services and Products | 6/3/24

Skill Assessment

• ​Are You Hiring for Skill or for Range? | 8/19/25

Software Development

• Space Camp and Their Approach to Software Development | 5/17/24
• Thoughts on the Core 4 Developer Productivity Framework | 1/15/25
• The Power of a Shared Language: What Concerts Can Teach Us About Building Great Software | 8/29/25

Space Camp

• Space Camp and Their Approach to Software Development | 5/17/24

Standards

• Stop Saying "I'm Not Technical": Why A West Point Leadership Priniciple Applies to Every Corporate Role (West Point Leadership Principle 2) | 12/5/25

Strategy

• Navigating Uncertainty: The Art of Quick, Informed Decisions in Business | 10/19/24
• A Blueprint for Engineering Leadership: The "CTO's Perfect Week" | 9/8/25
• Demystifying AI Strategy: You're Further Along Than You Think | 10/21/25
• From Vision to Victory: Building Your Staircase to Success | 11/20/25
• Gumption Does Not Compile | 3/11/26
• What I Believe About AI | 3/12/26
• The AI Project Will Lose to the Data Project | 3/22/26

Teamwork

• "Who's Got the Monkey?" - The 1974 Article That Still Nails Modern Management Problems | 1/8/25
• The Power of a Shared Language: What Concerts Can Teach Us About Building Great Software | 8/29/25

Technology

• Implications of Oracle's new MCP server for Analysts | 8/2/25

Technology Leadership

• The Fundamentals of Enterprise Technology | 3/9/26

Theory Y

• The Power of Positive Assumptions: Embracing Theory Y Management | 6/8/24

Time Management

• Productivity Picket Fence: Maker Edition | 12/16/24
• Productivity Picket Fence: Manager Edition | 12/18/24

Time-Series

• PostgreSQL's Time-Series Capabilities Grow with Tembo's pg_timeseries Extension | 5/25/24

Tribal IT

• TribalNet 2025: Day 1 Notes | 9/15/25
• TribalNet 2025: Day 2 Notes | 9/16/25
• TribalNet 2025: Day 3 Notes | 9/17/25

West Point Leadership Principles

• Stop Saying "I'm Not Technical": Why A West Point Leadership Priniciple Applies to Every Corporate Role (West Point Leadership Principle 2) | 12/5/25
• West Point Leadership Principle 1: Know Yourself and Seek Self-Improvement | 1/1/26
• West Point Leadership Principle 3: Seek Responsibility and Take Responsibility for Your Actions | 1/5/26
• West Point Leadership Principle 4: Set the Example | 1/12/26
• West Point Leadership Principle 5: Know Your People and Look Out for Their Well-Being | 1/22/26

Work Systems

• Building a Personal AI Environment with ChatGPT Projects | 3/2/26

Workforce

• The Marty McFly Problem | 3/24/26

pg_vector

• Unleashing the Power of pg_vector in PostgreSQL | 4/15/24