| Preferred role | Organisational Psychotherapist |
| Secondary role | Software teambuilding |
| Blog | https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com |
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Insights
There is a moment most of us have experienced — in the shower, on a walk, somewhere between sleep and waking — when a problem that has been grinding away at the back of the mind suddenly resolves itself. Not through effort, but through a kind of arrival. A door that was locked or invisible simply appears and opens. This is insight, and despite how familiar it feels, it remains one of the most fascinating and least understood phenomena in human cognition.
The Model Laid Bare: A Digest of Posts 31 Through 40
This is the fourth in a series of digests, each covering ten posts from this blog, in chronological order. The third digest covered posts 21 through 30, ending on 15 January 2011. This batch spans the remainder of January through to late March 2011 ...
The Violence in Your Vocabulary
You don't carry a weapon. You've never thrown a punch. But every day, you wage a quiet war — with your words, your framing, your unexamined habits of thought. Most people think of violence as something that happens out there. It's the news headline, the conflict zone, the crime statistic. It belongs to other people — the aggressive, the radical, the unhinged....
https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/the-violence-in-your-vocabulary/
In this article Steve Yegge argues that AI coding tools (especially Claude Code) are creating a new problem: AI-induced burnout.
"Who capture the value of productivity improvement via AI?"
Worth a read IMO (and shares a strategy which I've assiduously followed for 40+ years)
https://fosstodon.org/@flowchainsenseifoss/116064289740294326
Think Different
Most software development advice rehashes the same thinking. After 50+ years in the industry and 1,500+ posts, I've learned the real breakthroughs come from questioning the assumptions everyone else takes for granted.
That's what I explore at my long-running blog Think Different—where conventional wisdom goes to get challenged.
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The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Won't Address
Reflections From the Long View - 50 Years in Software Consulting
Over my five decades in software consulting, I've witnessed remarkable transformations in our industry—from punch cards to cloud computing, from mainframes to microservices to AI coding. But in the past few years, I've observed something deeply troubling: a…
People are NOT our greatest asset; it’s the relationships BETWEEN people that is the greatest asset
We've all heard it countless times. It's printed on office walls, declared in annual reports, and repeated in town halls: 'Our people are our greatest asset.' It's meant to be inspiring, a testament to an organisation's commitment to its workforce. But this well-intentioned phrase is fundamentally missing the point....
David Graeber Institute
