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My thoughts before MoTaCon: Co-owning quality

Thoughts and Musings. Entry 1

by James Martin For the past 2 months I have been designing my first proper game. I would call it a board game but really the board itself is fairly minimal! (Below is a bit of a...

Leading Thoughts for July 30, 2026

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Chris Hodges on growth: “Growth is r...

Thoughts before MoTaCon: make it joyful

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Thoughts before MoTaCon: there goes the fear

Leading Thoughts for August 13, 2026

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Bill Burnett and Dave Evans on detac...

Leading Thoughts for August 27, 2026

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Dave Rossi on the growth journey: “I...

Leading Thoughts for August 6, 2026

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Jeremy Pollack on certainty: “Certai...

Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts

A reflection on how we choose which passing or intruding thoughts become ours—and let the rest pass.

Leading Thoughts for July 16, 2026

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Eric Ries on the incoherent organiza...

Leading Thoughts for July 23, 2026

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig on...

Planning badly, more and less

Originally appeared on Island94.org. The following is some notes I’ve collected over my twenty years of career, some in tech, some in nonprofit and academia an...

10 thoughts on the Cowboys initial 53-man roster

The Dallas Cowboys’ 53-man roster is set. For now, that is. Expect more shuffling as they work out the little things with players still being claimed off waivers. This group is a g...

10 thoughts on the Cowboys 17-7 preseason win over the Seahawks

Football finally happened. The Dallas Cowboys just completed their first preseason game with a 17-7 win over the Seattle Seahawks. It was great to see them in action after such a l...

★ Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text

I want the answers that I read to be cogent, lucid, accurate, blessedly terse — and ideally to strike a consistent tone that is pleasant to my reading ear. The genie is not going b...

14 Thoughts I Had Watching the Verity Trailer

One editor's thoughts on the trailer for the adaptation of a book that spent 61+ weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.

Random Thoughts on Friday: More thoughts on lower level sports

I have always been a fan of minor league sports, especially baseball.  It is always fun attending games at the smaller parks, watching the young guys with something to prove.It's c...

Fragments: July 21

With this post, I’ll wrap up my notes from the second Future of Software Development Retreat. But before I do, I should note that the full Thoughtworks report on the retreat is no...

Leading Thoughts for August 20, 2026

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Creator of the iPod, iPhone, Tony Fa...

Systems Thinking

Tools for Possibilities: issue no. 204

Fragments: July 13

Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat. When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering. Thi...