Rands in Repose

Having been robot-wrangling for a solid year now, I continue to feel like they give me superpowers.

In our 101st episode, we kick off a new era of episode titles as your best engineer becomes the interim manager of their own team — delegation, one-on-ones, the three-year rule, a visit from Chili Palmer, the Cadillac of minivans salesman himself, and the…

I’ve used Claude quite a bit for both the upcoming new book and the next edition of Managing Humans.

Remember Manager Readmes?

If everything is going to plan and your operating system is in dark mode, then randsinrepose.com is now dark for you.

Appreciating typography is a study in paradox.

The final measure of any financial negotiation is the feeling of whether or not you got a “deal”.

Why do I write?

One hundred episodes.

In our 99th episode, Rands is back on the Pro Leisure Circuit — infinite time, a suspicious amount of Arc Raiders, and no wind in the sails — and we wrestle with what actually motivates a person when the engine of work goes quiet.

Review season.

In our 98th episode, we list the things we’ve been building with our robots and figure out who we’re really yelling at when it all goes wrong.

What’s it like to be you?

I will now explain why at least 50% of your team finds your current All Hands to be a waste of their time.

Welcome, new leader.

Coffee in hand, I sit down in the Cave.

Carolyn, my chief of staff, sat on the couch as I ran into my office.

I write this from the latest MacBook Pro.

The Head of Product, Customer Service, and the CTO of Slack were sitting in the front row at an important conference.

They don’t want to hear it.

You can read all the reviews you want about new hardware, but if it’s hardware you touch, there is one test that can only be performed in person, and it’s important: you hold it in your hand and you feel the answer to the question, “Is this a piece of jun…

Back in 2013, Alex King and I redesigned the Rands in Repose.

I’ve never built more interesting, random, and useless scripts, tools, and services than I have in the last six months.

In our 97th episode, we talk about how much more we learn in person and why the last 10% of anything is the most important part.

In our 96th episode, Rands goes deep (perhaps too deep) on ARC Raiders, an extraction shooter where trust is the real currency.