MIDS---Merge / Integrate / Dogfood / Ship---forms a lightweight philosophy for decentralized development: a way for many autonomous contributors to create coherent products without heavy process or centralized gatekeeping. Each step defines a distinct layer of responsibility, with pronouns that map the flow of agency from individual to collective.
AI can generate code faster than any human I've met. But it often lacks what we might call EQ for engineering: it doesn't know when to stop, it forgets promises, it drifts from context. That's not malice--it's the nature of the tool. The burden falls back on us to create a structure where AI's speed doesn't outrun our ability to review.
Littoral Civilization is a metamodern response to the metacrisis, synthesizing diverse modes of knowledge, ethical values, and communal aspirations. In this model, AI functions as an enabler of human resilience, wisdom, and relationality, helping us transcend the fragmentation of modernity and re-establish a coherent, purpose-driven society. By embracing Littoral Science, Littoral Governance, and Littoral Ethinomics, we open the possibility for a civilization that harmonizes technological advancement with existential meaning.
When they presented the new Hype Cycle Compressor to management, they described it as a way to fast-track innovation by compressing the time spent in each phase—not skipping over them, but using the tensions to fuel faster adaptation and alignment.
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Agile is a meaningless buzzword for many because it is perceived as an answer in search of a question. Too often, Agile is "cargo-culted" into an organization as an imposed process without first developing a deep understanding of what problems need to be solved. True progress only happens when the solution is aligned with the problems people actually... Continue Reading →
A Bibliography, mostly discussing UX Design but a little on the related issue of Architectural Design. A List Apart: Getting Real about Agile Design The uneasy relationships between design and agile SPARC: What an Agile Design Process looks like Thought Works: Just Enough Design Martin Fowler: Is Design Dead? Design Spikes Enough Design Up Front Overcoming Why Designers Resist Agile Agile... Continue Reading →
Most organizations' financial structures are designed for predictability rather than explosive growth. To change that, we must: Invest Constructively in Passion Specifically: 1. Align Incentives Learn what people deeply want. Articulate how they can pursue that by contributing to the organization's mission 2. Unleash Talent Learn where people are the happiest and most productive. Build support systems that allow them to maximize... Continue Reading →
[A follow-on to Spreading Effective Vision and The Agile Church, addressed specifically to the Church Spread of Kingsway Community Church.] In less than twelve months, together with the Holy Spirit, we have completely reinvented Kingsway Church. While our overall numbers may be the same, we have spread to two new neighborhoods, dramatically expanded our pastoral staff, and filled much of... Continue Reading →
While discussing The Agile Church and Metrics versus Goals, I realized that our organization's primary motivation for adopting Agile practices is to spread the ownership of effective vision. That is, we start with a shared belief that vision ought to be: Effective: timely, clear, actionable & aligned with the organization's overall purpose Spread: distributed from the core... Continue Reading →
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