Ron Lichty

If your standup meetings never result in change, they’re probably just status meetings. ronlichty.blogspot.com/2019/12/bett...

The Importance of Headroom: Time, Energy, Capital The best CEOs don’t run at 100%. They protect headroom — time, energy, capital — so they can act fast when opportunity strikes.

Making the case to CEOs: Using up 100% capacity prevents responsiveness. You must protect 20% headroom, margin, slack - it’s not waste - it’s the capacity to seize opportunity when it counts the most. mrjoe.uk/the-importan... —Joe Leech

Bluebird day yesterday at Bear Valley cross country with friends Dave and Steve Milne (can just see them disappearing over herringbone hill behind me, on the Equipe trail) - fast skate skiers, they. I'm on classic skis at 7,000 feet these days. (Still willing to skate at 3,000 feet in the Cascades!)

It’s never been the speed of your developers. Never.

YouTube video by Decoding Leadership Jim Shore: what if we scaled our teams to marvelous sizes?

Traditional scaling creates the very problems it's meant to solve!

@jamesshore.bsky.social James Shore shares why the common wisdom of carefully aligning teams and responsibilities eventually breaks down, and how #FASTAgile offers a fundamentally different approach.

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America’s Partisan Hypocrisy: Hunter Biden’s Crimes vs. Trump’s Business Conflicts Independent voters cut through selective outrage, contrasting criminal convictions with constitutional conflicts.

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We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.

The Importance of Headroom: Time, Energy, Capital The best CEOs don’t run at 100%. They protect headroom — time, energy, capital — so they can act fast when opportunity strikes.

The best CEOs don’t run at 100%. They protect headroom — time, energy, capital — so they can act fast when opportunity strikes.

Loved C. But loved Pascal more. (Course I loved assembly, too.)

Friends of Sunset Dunes on Instagram: "🖼️ Introducing the Sunset Dunes Art Exhibition at Judah! This is the park’s first rotating art show that highlights the creative spirit of Ocean Beach. The ina... The Sunset Dunes Art Exhibition is a unique rotating art show in San Francisco, featuring ocean-inspired art pieces from local artists. The exhibition is a showcase of creative spirit, capturing the i...

Sunset Dunes art exhibition: Love that the artists are all local; mostly hyperlocal.
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WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Remove Megyn Kelly from SiriusXM! Kelly just received a multiyear deal with SiriusXM. Her on-air comments defending Epstein's child trafficking make it clear: she should NOT have a platform with millions of listeners. Sign the petitio...

Kelly just received a multiyear deal with SiriusXM. Her on-air comments defending Epstein's child trafficking make it clear: she should NOT have a platform with millions of listeners. Sign the petition now to demand that SIriusXM cancel Megyn Kelly’s show NOW! sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

I grew up being told "the older you get, the more conservative you become." I'm finding that the older I get, the more I just want our society to be more tolerant, charitable, kind, peaceable, and ensure that everyone has what they need to survive and thrive.

Cleaning leaf-clogged bike lanes on Seattle’s Eastside — using bike power Fall in the Seattle area means lots of leaves in bike lanes. Slippery, soggy leaves can be dangerous on two wheels. Now, volunteers in Kirkland have a clever, new tool to clean bike lanes from the sea...

Seattle’s Eastside has a bike-powered “street sweeper” for bike lanes. www.kuow.org/stories/clea...

Why Does Steve Witkoff Keep Taking Russia’s Side? Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin.

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Stop Scam Ads on Social Media

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YouTube video by BestClassicalMusic Vladimir Horowitz plays Chopin Polonaise in A flat major op.53

Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op.53 - Heroic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1-u... Chopin must be the greatest piano composer ever. Amazing runs. I studied piano for nearly a decade. No idea how to execute those long runs.

YouTube video by Enterprise Agile Enlightened Managers: The Key to Empowering & Encouraging Self-Organizing Teams

Did you miss “Enlightened Managers: The Key to Empowering & Encouraging Self-Organizing Teams”? It’s recorded. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5r...

Strategic Decision Making: For Your Career Or Product!, Thu, Dec 4, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Trying to figure out your next career move? Or perhaps you are deciding what direction to take your product? This session will teach you how to use [SWOT analysis](https://

SWOT - a useful framework for decision-making. Chris Sims will review in his Scrum Professionals meetup next week. And hands-on, for your next career move or your next product direction. Review combined w/ opportunity to think thru your very own challenge. Priceless. www.meetup.com/scrumprofess...

The American Revolution Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.

Sobering. And wonderful. Just finished the sixth/last episode of Ken Burns' new documentary, The American Revolution. Recommended. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...

More reasons to avoid Tesla and Musk I recently learned two new reasons to avoid Tesla vehicles. First, there’s another lawsuit about their incredibly dangerous door handles. Two people died in...

More reasons to avoid Tesla and Musk

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Hold Meta accountable for fraudulent ads Facebook exposes users to 11 scam ads a day

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The American Revolution Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.

Tonight's movie: Episode 1 of Ken Burns' new documentary, The American Revolution. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...

During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
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Trump’s border czar rebukes US bishops over immigration stance Tom Homan, a self-described 'lifelong Catholic', has launched a sharp attack on the US Conference of Catholic Bishops after they issued a collective statement raising concerns over the Trump administr...

lolol these fucks. you're catholic! the pope is infallible! you don't like that, go be an evangelical, which is what you really want to be.

Schwab CIO Dawn Lepore presenting the year's Technical Leader of the Year award to Ron Lichty, soon to be promoted to VP Engineering at Schwab

25 years ago! Schwab’s CIO’s Technical Leader of the Year award. I was in year two, leading the Java Object Services initiative of CIO Dawn Lepore, here presenting the award. Exciting, heady times! I was promoted to VP Eng a couple weeks later. So long ago, but that's definitely a younger-me face!

Meetup Banner: photo of speaker Ron Lichty Talk Title: Enlightened Managers: The Key to Empowering & Encouraging Self-Organizing Teams Meetup Host: Enterprise Agile Global Community

Think about the best team you’ve ever been on. What characterized it? Think about the best manager you’ve ever worked for. What characterized her or him? That’s our topic Thursday night. Join us. www.meetup.com/enterprise-a...

ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT MAKES YOU GREAT AT BEING A PROGRAMMER IS THE ABILITY TO SHUT OUT THE WORLD, TO CLIMB INTO THE MICROPROCESSOR AND LISTEN TO THE GATES OPEN AND CLOSE ...AND THAT'S JUST EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU NEED TO DO AS A MANAGER. — RON LICHTY

Managing programmers, why programming management is hard, what makes a good programming manager, the attitude change required to pivot to managing, self-organizing teams, team dynamics and motivation, and performance. Enduring advice: Software Engineering Radio: se-radio.net/2017/10/se-r...