The Democratic Party is currently enthusiastically handing power over to what will probably the most dangerous administration the US has ever seen. I am only now realizing how much white progressives have failed black America. How much it has been about making white progressives feel good about being Good People. And how little has been done to actually dismantle oppression. How they love the language of “the left”, but when it actually comes down to action they reenforce the system that profits from the thinly veiled slavery machine they’ve always had. And now it’s too late.

1/ An unfortunate management student put a quarter in me in my DMs so I might as well put it in public: Why Lean Software Dev is Wrong. I think a big misunderstanding has been to think of software development as manufacturing. That also goes to my gripe with how Lean was translated to software development, which I think made this same mistake. I would need a whole thing on that as well (I'm assuming you read my thing on Team Topologies, which was basically to say that it was wrong in way too many words). So before buying into Lean Software dev and Kanban, I would actually go back and read for example Toyota Way, which I found super interesting when I read it (it's been a few years). Mapping Lean to other disciplines starts with trying to figure out "what is the factory?" and "who are the workers in the factory?" And this is where it's very easy to miss and Lean software dev missed completely imo.