Remember kids: Democracy is only when the Democrats win. Any other outcome is either Russian hackers or vote fraud (or both). 🇺🇸🤘

Great finding after 10+ years of IT management: a mature compact team can manage their work on a napkin or thru verbal notes and still rock and outperform any process-rich unreasonably post-agile ultra kanban team. But they won’t be able to prove their success for a QBR 🤡

Fun fact: we have launched a social network in our app, and now I’m flooding it with dumb AI generated cafe reviews with AI generated pics to prove that the scoring algo is horseshit.

Bitching Time: over time I’ve learned that product managers always push you to do “this urgent feature” outside of any reason and process and promise to follow the process “next time/year”. Problem: there is no “next time” - they get promoted, or rotate to another project, or start a sabbatical 🤡.