Don't be results-oriented
The alternative to results-oriented thinking is process-oriented thinking. With process-oriented thinking, your focus is on the quality of the decisions that produce the result – the part of the process that you can control, instead of the random variables that you don't control.
Management at Pivotal - Draft
Pivotal did a lot of things differently, but it did management really differently.
You don't have to guess to estimate
There are roughly three senses of "estimate." One is "a prediction of how much something will cost." One is "a guess." But another definition is a rough calculation.
Mere Being 013 - May - Allergies, Onboarding, Finance, Avocados
A little bit of day job day dreaming, history's greatest system for comparing movies, weirdos who actually read the source code, and a good way to eat avocados.
Reading software and thinking about it
Normal software work is so much about changing the system. Add capabilities. Change behavior. Imagine what could be or should be. Understanding what is – always a byproduct or a precondition of change.