Mike Badgett

There should be a penalty for requesting a response to an out-of-office notification.

If #chewey doesn't do a series of commercials where animals are doing serious work around the office (like the Sports Center commercials with mascots and athletes), I think they're missing an opportunity.

Sprinkler timers are the HP Calculators of landscaping equipment. I don't want to re-learn RPN just to water my bushes every other week, yo.

There's a fine line between challenging your colleagues and simply agitating the team.

Me: "Have you built anything in the last 6 months that included, looked like, encourage, or could be interpreted as horizontal scrolling?" Front End Candidate: "Yes." Me: "Have you no shame?"

People are leaving their cameras off in virtual meetings more and more these days. I don't think we will appreciate where this takes us. I mean, everyone's different and is comfortable with different things - but I think this will bring about some unintended consequences.

Open calendar spots in prime time (8 to 11:30am) are all gone. The land rush is over and you lost. Don't try to start a recurring meeting in there; you're competing with 5 other meetings that have great content and great guests. Don't quintlebook me, bro.

I hope my kids appreciate that they grew up with a first.last@gmail address. Helped by a not-so-common last name, but I'm quite proud I made that happen.

The number of times I've heard a UX expert say, "We need to stop what we're working on and really understand who the user is," and then leave the team within 2 months.... that's happened a lot of times.

Telling someone who has never heard it before that "building widgets is not in itself a goal" is a tough job. But someone has to do it.

I can talk for 48 hours straight about the difference between projects, goals, initiatives, programs, and tasks. I guarantee you no one listening will agree with me.

It's 2021. I just read a user story that starts with "As a product manager, I want <system> to <do what I want>."

Get a nice set of headphones with a great microphone. And turn on your camera.

"// TODO: Think of a better way to do this." -all of us

50 Shades of Done. My new horror movie about lingering enterprise IT projects.

Your need drops 10 points in importance when labeled as an "ask".

Capitalizing IT spend is the death knell of enterprise IT. Capex didn't kill the creativity but it certainly celebrates the passing.

Under no circumstances does fish belong in a microwave.

Somewhere right now is an XP machine on the fate of which balances at least 50k lives. Today's creativity is tomorrow's legacy blunder.

Standup attendance is the price of trust for an engineering manager.