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Friday Forum: Letting go of Control
Conversations on leadership and the illusion of control
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John Durrant
A New Direction
Refreshing this newsletter with a slightly revised purpose
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John Durrant

November 2021

Avoiding the Sunk Cost Fallacy
Learning how to let go, even when you've already invested so much effort
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John Durrant

October 2021

Personal Development Plans
Self-Determination Theory to inspire compelling PDPs
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John Durrant
Engineering Brag Logs
Journaling your contributions, and tracking your growth
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John Durrant
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September 2021

Coding at the Gates of Hell?
Creating the conditions for Deep Work
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John Durrant
Co-creating our Organic Engineering Ecosystems
Leaders as Gardeners, facilitating growth through a narrative, guiding how we tend to our underlying substrate.
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John Durrant
Psychological Safety
Tough conversations without emotional damage
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John Durrant
Code Purification Rituals
How would the quality of life of Software Engineers improve by periodically taking time to cleanse and detox our coding environments?
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John Durrant
Changing our locations to change our thinking.
"You don't travel to see different things, you travel to see things differently." - I found this thoughtful quote in a YouTube comment related t…
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John Durrant
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August 2021

The Bus Factor
How many of your Engineers could you risk being run over by a bus?
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John Durrant
Protocols, models, and tools for a People First approach to Software Engineering.
Re-engineering our work environments to put People First
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John Durrant
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