Jon Hartmann
@jonhartmann.bsky.social
Sr. Principal Engineering Leadership
Orange Apron Media by The Home Depot
Experience: leadership, strategy, and engineering
Domains: retail media, eCommerce, and content management
Orange Apron Media by The Home Depot
Experience: leadership, strategy, and engineering
Domains: retail media, eCommerce, and content management
Why does your team know the right thing to do but fail to do it under pressure? Part 3 of my series on praxis how to install the discipline of action in your organization.
#praxis #development #Aristotle
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#praxis #development #Aristotle
jonhartmann1.substack.com/p/from-theor...
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Why does your team know the right thing to do but fail to do it under pressure? Part 3 of my series on praxis how to install the discipline of action in your organization.
#praxis #development #Aristotle
jonhartmann1.substack.com/p/from-theor...
#praxis #development #Aristotle
jonhartmann1.substack.com/p/from-theor...
Scott Adams may have rightfully fallen out of favor, but this quote a friend dropped on me last night hits kind of hard.
October 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Scott Adams may have rightfully fallen out of favor, but this quote a friend dropped on me last night hits kind of hard.
You want to build good habits - to build praxis - but what its "right?"
Aristotle described the "doctrine of the mean," where actions are not necessarily tempered, but fitted to the situation.
#leadership #praxis #Aristotle #development
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Aristotle described the "doctrine of the mean," where actions are not necessarily tempered, but fitted to the situation.
#leadership #praxis #Aristotle #development
open.substack.com/pub/jonhartm...
October 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
You want to build good habits - to build praxis - but what its "right?"
Aristotle described the "doctrine of the mean," where actions are not necessarily tempered, but fitted to the situation.
#leadership #praxis #Aristotle #development
open.substack.com/pub/jonhartm...
Aristotle described the "doctrine of the mean," where actions are not necessarily tempered, but fitted to the situation.
#leadership #praxis #Aristotle #development
open.substack.com/pub/jonhartm...
Your team has perfect OKRs, runs all the ceremonies, tracks all the metrics—but nothing actually improves.
Welcome to dyspraxis: the theater of progress without its substance.
Wrote about why organizations mistake ritual for results (and what Aristotle knew about it).
#leadership #praxis
Welcome to dyspraxis: the theater of progress without its substance.
Wrote about why organizations mistake ritual for results (and what Aristotle knew about it).
#leadership #praxis
September 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Your team has perfect OKRs, runs all the ceremonies, tracks all the metrics—but nothing actually improves.
Welcome to dyspraxis: the theater of progress without its substance.
Wrote about why organizations mistake ritual for results (and what Aristotle knew about it).
#leadership #praxis
Welcome to dyspraxis: the theater of progress without its substance.
Wrote about why organizations mistake ritual for results (and what Aristotle knew about it).
#leadership #praxis
My development career has spanned decades; these are the three diagrams I find most useful in problem solving and why I learned to stop chasing the idea that there was a singular "right" way to diagram software designs.
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#SoftwareDevelopment
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#SoftwareDevelopment
September 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
My development career has spanned decades; these are the three diagrams I find most useful in problem solving and why I learned to stop chasing the idea that there was a singular "right" way to diagram software designs.
open.substack.com/pub/jonhartm...
#SoftwareDevelopment
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#SoftwareDevelopment
"Metrics are signal, not strategy." AI may help us understand data, but that does not mean it understands humans or can take the leaps necessary, or that they should even if they could.
We do not need more cleverness.
We do not need more cleverness.
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Metrics are signal, not strategy." AI may help us understand data, but that does not mean it understands humans or can take the leaps necessary, or that they should even if they could.
We do not need more cleverness.
We do not need more cleverness.
What if your next team training ditched training scenarios for dragons and dice? I think there is a real opportunity for role playing games to play a bigger part in practicing and learning real business skills.
jonhartmann1.substack.com/p/playing-to...
#RolePlayingGames #SkillDevelopment
jonhartmann1.substack.com/p/playing-to...
#RolePlayingGames #SkillDevelopment
September 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What if your next team training ditched training scenarios for dragons and dice? I think there is a real opportunity for role playing games to play a bigger part in practicing and learning real business skills.
jonhartmann1.substack.com/p/playing-to...
#RolePlayingGames #SkillDevelopment
jonhartmann1.substack.com/p/playing-to...
#RolePlayingGames #SkillDevelopment
"Creativity is the missing pillar of self-development."
I believe in creative acts & play as tools for learning that far too many people abandon.
www.ted.com/talks/amie_m...
I believe in creative acts & play as tools for learning that far too many people abandon.
www.ted.com/talks/amie_m...
August 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Creativity is the missing pillar of self-development."
I believe in creative acts & play as tools for learning that far too many people abandon.
www.ted.com/talks/amie_m...
I believe in creative acts & play as tools for learning that far too many people abandon.
www.ted.com/talks/amie_m...
You know when you make a choice that doesn't quite align with what you'd say you stand for? "The Archaeology of Ethics" explores a methodology to examine what we actually do, not what we think we do.
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#Ethics #SelfReflection #LeadershipDevelopment #Praxis
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#Ethics #SelfReflection #LeadershipDevelopment #Praxis
August 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
You know when you make a choice that doesn't quite align with what you'd say you stand for? "The Archaeology of Ethics" explores a methodology to examine what we actually do, not what we think we do.
open.substack.com/pub/jonhartm...
#Ethics #SelfReflection #LeadershipDevelopment #Praxis
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#Ethics #SelfReflection #LeadershipDevelopment #Praxis
What lessons about leadership should you be taking from Star Trek's best captain?
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August 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
What lessons about leadership should you be taking from Star Trek's best captain?
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How do you connect your company values to its actions? Leveraging praxis fosters decisions that make your values more than lip service.
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August 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
How do you connect your company values to its actions? Leveraging praxis fosters decisions that make your values more than lip service.
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Reflection reveals insights, but action drives change. My latest post explores how leaders can close the “action gap” by turning reflection into deliberate, values-driven steps. What’s your next best action?
#Leadership #Praxis
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#Leadership #Praxis
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July 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reflection reveals insights, but action drives change. My latest post explores how leaders can close the “action gap” by turning reflection into deliberate, values-driven steps. What’s your next best action?
#Leadership #Praxis
open.substack.com/pub/jonhartm...
#Leadership #Praxis
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If you're building your business on the relative speed advantages of AI, you're building on a short-lived advantage. Harvard Business Review's On Strategy has a great essay about the Productivity Frontier that anyone evaluating the AI landscape should read.
July 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
If you're building your business on the relative speed advantages of AI, you're building on a short-lived advantage. Harvard Business Review's On Strategy has a great essay about the Productivity Frontier that anyone evaluating the AI landscape should read.
As I continue to catch up on my backlog of reading, I keep thinking about a few texts that really resonated with me down through the years, despite being a bit long in the tooth now. What are the works you go back to, even if they are showing their age?
February 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
As I continue to catch up on my backlog of reading, I keep thinking about a few texts that really resonated with me down through the years, despite being a bit long in the tooth now. What are the works you go back to, even if they are showing their age?
I'm not usually big on New Year Resolutions, but this year I wanted to finally clear out a backlog of books I've acquired but not read, so I'm going to read two books a month - or in the case of January, finish 4 books so I can start clean on February.
January 31, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'm not usually big on New Year Resolutions, but this year I wanted to finally clear out a backlog of books I've acquired but not read, so I'm going to read two books a month - or in the case of January, finish 4 books so I can start clean on February.
When was the last time you worked in a code base that was _technically_ correct but hard to operate? Or difficult to maintain? Although such systems can be necessary, many times a "habitable" system is much more beneficial, offering greater insight and adaptability.
January 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When was the last time you worked in a code base that was _technically_ correct but hard to operate? Or difficult to maintain? Although such systems can be necessary, many times a "habitable" system is much more beneficial, offering greater insight and adaptability.
In 2022, less than half of US adults reported they had read a book last year. My "resolution" this year is to increase my reading of fiction and business books with a focus on sharing what I liked or learned about them. What is on your reading list this year?
January 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
In 2022, less than half of US adults reported they had read a book last year. My "resolution" this year is to increase my reading of fiction and business books with a focus on sharing what I liked or learned about them. What is on your reading list this year?
Take this in two ways. First, you need to get things right the first time, as you may not get a chance to correct the issues in the next version. Second, you shouldn't be thinking about big version changes anyway: continuous adjustments and modifications should be the norm in your process.
December 4, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Take this in two ways. First, you need to get things right the first time, as you may not get a chance to correct the issues in the next version. Second, you shouldn't be thinking about big version changes anyway: continuous adjustments and modifications should be the norm in your process.
