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      <title>Using constraints to deliver</title>
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        <![CDATA[I’ve always liked [Parkinson's Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law). It’s a fictional law that captures something true about how we operate: work expands to fill the time available...]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Importance of Team Culture Alignment</title>
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        <![CDATA[Every team has a culture, whether you define it intentionally or let it form on its own. It can be magical when a team has aligned on culture from top to bottom. Understanding how to define and build that culture is a key to team success.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>So, You're a Manager Now</title>
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        <![CDATA[Transitioning from being an Individual Contributor (IC) to a Manager is one of the most difficult shifts any person may make in their career. This represents a recognition of growth as well as a drastic change in responsibilities. Like becoming a parent it’s something that none of us are ready for until it happens, but somehow, many of us will succeed. The difference in success depends on how much effort and focus you give your new role as well as the support and tolerance you give yourself.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A Mixtape in 2022</title>
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        <![CDATA[I had the idea to create mixtapes, real, vinyl-to-tape, analog, lift-and-drop-the-needle, mixtapes, for my friends during a drive back from Montana after Thanksgiving. There’s something lost in the digital music era, where every song of every album from every artist is available at any moment at a click of a button. The ability to create a digital playlist, to be able to listen, reorder, or swap songs at a whim is convenient, it loses what drew me to vinyl in the first place, a purposefulness...]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2022 05:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Middle Path of Planning and Reflection</title>
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        <![CDATA[Thinking about the future or past is an important practice, but we must be careful to not to take either too far. Buddhists call this the [Middle Way](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way) or the Middle Path. Taking any practice too far can be detrimental: over-indulgence or self-mortification is not ideal. We can apply this same goal to planning and reflection.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Micromanagement and Trust</title>
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        <![CDATA[If you ask 100 employees if they like to be micromanaged 90 of them will say no, and the remaining 10 will walk away in disgust at you having the gall to ask the question. Micromanagement is so bad it’s almost synonymous with bad-management. If we all know it’s a bad choice, then why do managers do it?]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>On Giving Advice</title>
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        <![CDATA[A friend of mine, Arvind, writes a blog called “myotherramblings.” It’s a place where he can write about anything he'd like to. Recently he wrote a post on [The Dark Side of Advice](https://myotherramblings.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/advice-a-dark-side/), I recommend you read it. I’ve often felt similarly, “if people aren’t going to do what I say, why did they ask me for advice!” This post got me thinking about another facet to giving advice. This post was originally an email directly to them, ...]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Emergency Preparedness During Coronavirus Frenzy</title>
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        <![CDATA[In the midst of Coronavirus frenzy I decided to bring up a blog post I’ve been slowly writing for some time now. I am what I would consider a tentative “prepper” I like to be prepared for the threats that I think are most likely without going crazy and building a nuclear bunker in my back yard. I think there are a few things that we can all do to improve our preparedness that have little effect to your day to day life, but can significantly increase your comfort and decrease your stress in an...]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 22:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Mind Map Your Life</title>
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        <![CDATA[Recently there have been a lot of things going on in my life. So many that I started to find it difficult to keep track of everything. I needed a way to organize my thoughts so I could feel comfortable that things weren’t slipping through the cracks and so I could organize and attack my concerns.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Start With the Hard Part</title>
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        <![CDATA[I like [Seth Godin’s blog](https://seths.blog) I recommend you check it out. He writes daily, so it can be overwhelming, but there are really some good nuggets in there.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Delight in the Details</title>
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        <![CDATA[In trying to understand something we can often fall into a pattern of mapping the new thing to something we already know. This is a great way to get a foundation for understanding but it’s a shortcut and it’s important to dive into the details for better understanding and more excitement.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Introducing ReThink Security</title>
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        <![CDATA[Recently Jason Taylor and I started a new side project, ReThink Security. The purpose is to share the insights that we’ve built up over the past two decades in the security industry. During this time we’ve spoken to countless people in the security industry, help move teams of individuals forward in security maturity and worked with organizations ranging from the largest in the world to weeks-old startups looking to minimize security missteps.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Newsletter &amp; Recommendations</title>
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        <![CDATA[Recently I’ve noticed that I prefer to receive updates from my favorite blogs in email. If you feel similarly I’ve signed up with Mailchimp to deliver my posts via email. Of course I’ll never share your information with anybody else, and if you unsubscribe Mailchimp will handle that quickly and thoroughly.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Take a Moment</title>
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        <![CDATA[There are very few things in life that require an immediate response.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 22:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Triage Decision Making</title>
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        <![CDATA[Not all decisions require the same amount of time to think through, but some high impact decisions warrant your time, energy, and effort to make valuable decisions.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2019 16:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Show Your Work</title>
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        <![CDATA[There’s a fine line between bragging and letting people know what you're doing. Many times in a work setting it is important to make a little more noise about yourself than you think you should.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 18:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Getting Back Up</title>
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        <![CDATA[Habits are important, but restarting is more important. You will forget to work out, fail at your diet, upset a friend or coworker, or make a million other mistakes.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Max Out vs. Continuous Development</title>
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        <![CDATA[There’s a mental difference between thinking that something can be maxed out versus being constantly improved and developed. If something can be maxed out there is an end. This end can become a goal, which can be helpful, but it can also be limiting. If you feel you have maxed something out in your life if can also be a source of ego. Targeting maxing something out can be dangerous and ultimately discouraging.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://whoisjoe.com/posts/max-out-vs-continuous-development</link>
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      <title>Mental Diet and Exercise</title>
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        <![CDATA[Recently I noticed an old pair of pants were a little tighter than I remembered them being. It was easy for me to jump to the conclusion that I either needed to accept my new form and buy new pants or I needed to adopt a better diet and focus on my exercise. It’s easier to eat junk food and skip the gym, it’s tough to make lifestyle changes, but for me that was what I had to choose to do.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Asking for Help Part 2 - Alerting</title>
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        <![CDATA[I realized in my first part of [Asking for Help](/posts/asking-for-help) that I didn’t put a fine enough point on some of the points I should have made when asking for help.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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