Faith Peterson

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When I started working with a team that kept missing sprint commitments, my first action was to drop the traditional static 3-question daily standup. Instead, we began a daily practice of recalibrating our plan-to-completion relative to the sprint goal.

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Flow metrics—cycle time and lead time—give teams immediate information and feedback they can use to improve their process. They show the effects of process experiments faster. And they encourage team behavior that leads to the results managers care about—deliver more, faster, and with production reliability.

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The other day I asked “Do We Envy AI?” Does “AI” seem to possess some kinds of transcendence that we aspire to but can't or haven't reached? Today, the inverse: using LLMs and related technologies to create representations of ourselves that survive our deaths. Welcome Lucy AI, an art installation/exhibit that was explicitly created in response to Lucy Simic's stage 4 cancer diagnosis.

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Stumbled over this feature. Why I like it: * I can easily see what needs my attention right away. * I can choose panel contents rather than let GMail choose for me. * Example: in:unreads -category:promotions

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For millennia, humans have invented dozens of ways to survive, as individuals, beyond the limits of our physical existence. Does generative AI appear to exist in a transcendent state we have only aspired to? On some level, do we resent that apparently privileged position? In short, do we envy AI?

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Voxly was flying. The fitness facility management startup had signed three major chains in four months. Each new client meant rushing to configure their properties in Voxly's system—class schedules, instructor assignments, studio capacity limits, member restrictions. The admin interface was barebones, but who had time for fiel