The path from A to B is a hypothesis that needs to be tested often and early.

Alignment to strategy gives you aim and direction, while 'Stop Starting, Start Finishing' ensures the flow of work is sustainable and brings Value Sooner.

#BVSSH

One finds things when one is out looking, scanning and observing the skies. Over time abilities get better, it's invisible, tuned telescopes are almost magical. Finding things is luck for sure but it's not accidental.

A fun video combining a state flow and a network graph.

People build systems and then systems build people.

Quality of deepseek engineering is commendable. Calling it a copy is naive or dishonest, irrespective of where one may stand in their affiliation. Stuff even outside the reasoning parts e.g. DualPipe(V) is class distributed systems work.

".. because they measure everything they (only)try to do things that make a difference in the time they can measure them." - Danny Hillis

Engineering waste is not the biggest problem with most 100-engineer orgs, lack of product market fit is. If you can't get 100 geeks pointed in the same direction, roughly aligned with the rest of the company, you're already toast but the smoke alarm just hasn't beeped yet.

Rate of change of talent density is superlinear, factored by the hierarchy of change.