PawCast with GeePaw Hill

Episode 3 is now live. If you have any feedback you can always tweet @GeePawHill on Twitter, or drop a voice message via... Read more

"A camerata -- h/t Jess Kerr for that term -- is a group of people working on a common problem, both together and separa... Read more

"A respondent asks, "Are you always able to practice what you preach? I don't mean intentionally dropping but unintentio... Read more

"I don't know what will thicken the software making trade's culture. But I know (part of) what I'm trying to do: tell th... Read more

"As a pure code monkey, my greatest asset is unquestionably my ability to organize, to rapidly arrange and re-arrange id... Read more

"Now, there are no bad dogs. Sentinel returns aren't inherently evil: there are two reasons why they're ubiquitous down ... Read more

People use the word "discipline" reasonably often when they talk about the software trade. I tend to avoid that word, an... Read more

"Nearly all significant change in human behaviors, individual or group, depends on three things: a new technique, a new ... Read more

"When my motivational spectrum calls for a high degree of mastery, I do my best work when it is just a little over my he... Read more

"The more we need creative technical work, the more we have to concern ourselves with providing the humans who do it the... Read more

Emphasize open disputation. If we disagree, that's a *good* thing, not a bad one. It means we have more than one idea i... Read more

Before anything else, there's the series titles, and I'm going to make a joke: I always wanted to write "Low Self-Esteem... Read more

"We talked about the widespread pernicious conceptual cluster we call "finish-line efficiency": the idea that software d... Read more

"There is no story in the history of the English monarchy that could not be readily re-framed as the story of mobsters a... Read more

"When I say tell and re-tell the story of us until it becomes the story we want, bringing us together in a culture of ki... Read more

When we talked about "if all you have is a hammer", we mentioned frames, and I mentioned Race, Build, and More, but then... Read more

"I try to seek both multiplicity and diversity in the purposes we offer to the individuals around us. Both of those word... Read more

"Those who rate this band of the motivational spectrum highly can be go-to workhorses, but only if we keep them connecte... Read more

A decade ago I coined the term "microtest" for the kind of tests I write (or 95% of them). I found it easier to give peo... Read more

The central concept of a dynamic unity is change-harvesting: make a change, harvest its value, use that value to make an... Read more