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Jason Yip

@jchyip.bsky.social

Senior Manager Product and Platform Engineering. ExtremeProgramming, Agile, Lean guy. Ex-Spotify, ex-ThoughtWorks, ex-CruiseControl. I'm a Canadian / Australian in New York.

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What I’ve been reading this week ending 2 November 2025 The giant basket case countries — by Noah Smith

What I’ve been reading this week ending 2 November 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee... #economics #communication #ContinuousImprovement #AI #layoffs #creativity #innovation

02.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Labour costs are a distraction in product development Focus on cost of delay, not labour costs

Labour costs are a distraction in #ProductDevelopment jchyip.medium.com/labour-costs...

27.10.2025 12:23 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 26 October 2025 What Matters: What Matters: OKR Google playbook: Examples & templates

What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 26 October 2025 medium.com/@jchyip/what... #OKR #TechnicalDebt #AI #EngineeringCulture #ClimateChange #Lean #Economics

26.10.2025 12:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AWS is down, and this coffee shop has turned into an empathy circle. Every five minutes, another pager goes off. We just nod. Just a beautiful shared experience.

20.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading this week ending 19 October 2025 What To Do When Empowerment Doesn’t Work — Leadership Unlocked: 10 Years of Team of Teams

What I’ve been reading this week ending 19 October 2025 medium.com/@jchyip/what... #leadership #economics #llm

19.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thoughts from LeadDev NYC 2025 I recently attended LeadDev NYC 2025.

Thoughts from #LeadDevNewYork 2025 jchyip.medium.com/thoughts-fro... #EngineeringManagement

18.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 12 October 2025 Memory access is O(N^[1/3])

What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 12 October 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee... #SoftwareEngineering #AI #SmallWorldNetworks #ClimateChange

12.10.2025 12:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading this week ending 5 October 2025 Properties of Estimators — GeeksforGeeks

What I’ve been reading this week ending 5 October 2025 medium.com/@jchyip/what... #estimation #ai #documentation #ProblemSolving #resistance

05.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Culture patterns for setting up a new office in another country The context is setting up a new office / development centre in a new country. These patterns can also apply to new cities in the same…

Culture patterns for setting up a new office in another country medium.com/@jchyip/cult... #OfficeCulture

29.09.2025 13:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading this week ending 28 September 2025 To vibe or not to vibe

What I’ve been reading this week ending 28 September 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee... #AI #psychology #SoftwareEngineering #probability #SystemsThinking

28.09.2025 13:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading this week ending 21 September 2025 Prompt Engineering Is Requirements Engineering — O’Reilly

What I’ve been reading this week ending 21 September 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee... #PromptEngineering #cities #SoftwareEngineering #Lean #UnitTesting #ClimateChange

21.09.2025 13:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 14 September 2025 How to Foster Talent Management Champions

What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 14 September 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee... #TalentManagement #DataStructures #Meritocracy #Patents #TeamFlow #WebDevelopment #Leadership #AI #tech

14.09.2025 12:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 7 September 2025 At least five interesting things: You Can’t Just Do Things edition (#69)

What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 7 September 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee... #economics #tariffs #populism #luck #mentorship #neuroscience #agility

07.09.2025 14:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 31 August 2025 The evolution of leader–follower reciprocity: the theory of service-for-prestige — PMC

What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 31 August 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee... #leadership #China #OpenSource #learning #movies #psychology #inequality #LLMs #APIDesign

31.08.2025 12:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 24 August 2025 Lessons from U.S. Army Special Ops on Becoming a Leader

What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 24 August 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee... #leadership #SystemsThinking #MarkovChains #innovation

24.08.2025 12:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading this week ending 3 August 2025 A short post on short trains — by Shaked Koplewitz

What I’ve been reading this week ending 3 August 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee... #IncrementalDevelopment #LLM #SoftwareDevelopment #Leadership #WebDevelopment

03.08.2025 13:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Never start with 100% Patterns for progressive delivery of software products

Never start with 100% jchyip.medium.com/never-start-...

28.07.2025 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I’ve been reading this week ending 27 July 2025 (video) This mechanism shrinks when pulled

What I’ve been reading this week ending 27 July 2025 #physics #economics #ai #leadership #change jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee...

27.07.2025 11:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What I’ve been reading this week ending 20 July 2025 The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

What I’ve been reading this week ending 20 July 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee...

20.07.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What I’ve been reading this week ending 13 July 2025 Free-market economics is working surprisingly well

What I’ve been reading this week ending 13 July 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee...

13.07.2025 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What I’ve been reading this week ending 6 July 2025 Why power skills — formerly known as ‘soft skills’ — are the key to business success

What I’ve been reading this week ending 6 July 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee...

07.07.2025 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What I’ve been reading this week ending 29 June 2025 Prompt Engineering: Enhance AI Outputs with TCREI Simplified — Dr. Ayse Ozturk

What I’ve been reading this week ending 29 June 2025 medium.com/@jchyip/what...

29.06.2025 14:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What I’ve been reading this week ending 22 June 2025 Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs: A Return to Mediocrity?

What I’ve been reading this week ending 22 June 2025 jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee...

22.06.2025 12:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dog adoption in New York, NY 10044: Pocket Bully Dog "Monday" Monday needs a home! Information about adopting this Pocket Bully Dog in New York, NY, 10044

🚨 #PocketBully Rescue Needs a Home in #NYC! 🚨

This sweet 1-year-old pup needs a loving, stable home as the only pet.

www.nokillnetwork.org/adoption/new...

Reposts appreciated! ❤️🐶
#DogRescue #AdoptDontShop #RescueDog #DogLovers #AnimalWelfare #BullyBreed #ForeverHome #BlueskyPets

11.06.2025 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The most interesting things I’ve learned about improvement Originally from my old blog posted on 14 August 2013.

The most interesting things I’ve learned about #improvement jchyip.medium.com/the-most-int...

03.06.2025 12:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Feature Aggregates: strategic vs tactical prioritisation Originally posted on my old blog on Nov 2011

Feature Aggregates: strategic vs tactical #prioritisation jchyip.medium.com/feature-aggr... #Agile #ProductManagement #ProjectManagement

02.06.2025 12:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DIY leadership development program for people who didn’t get nominated I’ve always thought it would be more useful to have everyone participate in leadership development programs rather than just the limited…

DIY #LeadershipDevelopment program for people who didn’t get nominated jchyip.medium.com/diy-leadersh...

01.05.2025 01:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DIY leadership development: DIY capstone project(s) Why?

DIY #LeadershipDevelopment: DIY capstone project(s) jchyip.medium.com/diy-leadersh...

30.04.2025 01:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DIY leadership development: Stay connected with the broader industry. Why?

DIY #LeadershipDevelopment: Stay connected with the broader industry jchyip.medium.com/diy-leadersh...

24.04.2025 00:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why to develop relationships in the broader industry, not just your own organization?

1. It allows you to be useful to others by making connections between colleagues and external contacts
2. It helps you stay on top of trends
3. It builds resources for help, advice, partnerships

What else?

18.04.2025 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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