s18e01: Pulling the Cord; Do Not Reply; Fast User Switching

0.0 Context Setting

Monday, 11 March, 2024 in Portland, Oregon after being away for a while. But I’m back now! That break allows for a new season, so I’m just going to with that.

0.1 Hallway Track News

Hallway Track is taking a little break while I cue up the next few sessions.

I expect we’ll start up again around mid-April.

1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention

Two big things and one little thing today.

1.1 The Pulling the Cord alpha

Here is a new thing that I am doing.

For a long time, I’ve been working with leaders and executives in government explaining and persuading them to take an alternative approach to buying and building tech in their business-as-usual approach.

I am, I’ve been told, very good at this. I did it again recently for a client, and remembered how fun and fulfilling it feels to:

• empathize with leaders, fundamentally, feel trapped into some sort of groundhog day time loop of trying harder and not really getting any different results, i.e. spending a lot of money on tech that still, more or less, sucks
• I mean, really, really candidly talk about this in a way that gains trust

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