Three months into my first Big Tech gig I was talking to a mentor about the overhead involved with the way the organisation worked. Meetings for standups, tech huddles, refinements, retros and product reviews; Processes such as limiting work in progress, desk checks, spikes, stories, and tasks. …
The Beaconsfield Returned Services League Park has a WW1-era howitzer, a skate park, and a retired Australian Army leopard tank. The howitzer is aimed at cars driving along the main road, while the tank ranges an empty lot. Fifty years after manufacturing the howitzer the Germans also made the tank. …
The Iliad has many central heroes: Agamemnon, Menelaus, Nestor, Diomedes, Achilles, Priam, Hector, Paris, the list goes on. Then there are hundreds of named characters who get introduced in the Catalogue of the Ships or the Trojan Battle Order, and then meet a quick death at the hands of a central …
