Ron Lichty
@ronlichty.bsky.social
Software Engineering Management, untangling organizational knots, creating roadmaps, delivering great products. Author, Programmer, Service, Integrity. Co-author, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sign our petition for the government to hold social media companies accountable for posting ads that could scam consumers action.consumerreports.org/sm-20251117-...
Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op.53 - Heroic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1-u... Chopin must be the greatest piano composer ever. Amazing runs. I studied piano for nearly a decade. No idea how to execute those long runs.
Vladimir Horowitz plays Chopin Polonaise in A flat major op.53
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November 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op.53 - Heroic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1-u... Chopin must be the greatest piano composer ever. Amazing runs. I studied piano for nearly a decade. No idea how to execute those long runs.
Did you miss “Enlightened Managers: The Key to Empowering & Encouraging Self-Organizing Teams”? It’s recorded. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5r...
Enlightened Managers: The Key to Empowering & Encouraging Self-Organizing Teams
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November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Did you miss “Enlightened Managers: The Key to Empowering & Encouraging Self-Organizing Teams”? It’s recorded. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5r...
SWOT - a useful framework for decision-making. Chris Sims will review in his Scrum Professionals meetup next week. And hands-on, for your next career move or your next product direction. Review combined w/ opportunity to think thru your very own challenge. Priceless. www.meetup.com/scrumprofess...
Strategic Decision Making: For Your Career Or Product!, Thu, Dec 4, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Trying to figure out your next career move? Or perhaps you are deciding what direction to take your product? This session will teach you how to use [SWOT analysis](https://
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November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
SWOT - a useful framework for decision-making. Chris Sims will review in his Scrum Professionals meetup next week. And hands-on, for your next career move or your next product direction. Review combined w/ opportunity to think thru your very own challenge. Priceless. www.meetup.com/scrumprofess...
Sobering. And wonderful. Just finished the sixth/last episode of Ken Burns' new documentary, The American Revolution. Recommended. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Sobering. And wonderful. Just finished the sixth/last episode of Ken Burns' new documentary, The American Revolution. Recommended. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
Tonight's movie: Episode 1 of Ken Burns' new documentary, The American Revolution. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Tonight's movie: Episode 1 of Ken Burns' new documentary, The American Revolution. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
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During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
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lolol these fucks. you're catholic! the pope is infallible! you don't like that, go be an evangelical, which is what you really want to be.
Trump’s border czar rebukes US bishops over immigration stance
Tom Homan, a self-described 'lifelong Catholic', has launched a sharp attack on the US Conference of Catholic Bishops after they issued a collective statement raising concerns over the Trump administr...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
lolol these fucks. you're catholic! the pope is infallible! you don't like that, go be an evangelical, which is what you really want to be.
25 years ago! Schwab’s CIO’s Technical Leader of the Year award. I was in year two, leading the Java Object Services initiative of CIO Dawn Lepore, here presenting the award. Exciting, heady times! I was promoted to VP Eng a couple weeks later. So long ago, but that's definitely a younger-me face!
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
25 years ago! Schwab’s CIO’s Technical Leader of the Year award. I was in year two, leading the Java Object Services initiative of CIO Dawn Lepore, here presenting the award. Exciting, heady times! I was promoted to VP Eng a couple weeks later. So long ago, but that's definitely a younger-me face!
Think about the best team you’ve ever been on. What characterized it? Think about the best manager you’ve ever worked for. What characterized her or him? That’s our topic Thursday night. Join us. www.meetup.com/enterprise-a...
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Think about the best team you’ve ever been on. What characterized it? Think about the best manager you’ve ever worked for. What characterized her or him? That’s our topic Thursday night. Join us. www.meetup.com/enterprise-a...
Managing programmers, why programming management is hard, what makes a good programming manager, the attitude change required to pivot to managing, self-organizing teams, team dynamics and motivation, and performance. Enduring advice: Software Engineering Radio: se-radio.net/2017/10/se-r...
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Managing programmers, why programming management is hard, what makes a good programming manager, the attitude change required to pivot to managing, self-organizing teams, team dynamics and motivation, and performance. Enduring advice: Software Engineering Radio: se-radio.net/2017/10/se-r...
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#GVerse Um. WTF???
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
#GVerse Um. WTF???
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
Agile doesn’t make managers go away. But agile - effective software development - requires a surprisingly different managerial mindset. Next week, Nov. 13, 5:30pm. www.meetup.com/enterprise-a...
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Agile doesn’t make managers go away. But agile - effective software development - requires a surprisingly different managerial mindset. Next week, Nov. 13, 5:30pm. www.meetup.com/enterprise-a...
Thought about how critical managers are in agile transformations succeeding? Probably not deeply enough! Let’s! Nov. 13, 5:30pm. www.meetup.com/enterprise-a...
November 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Thought about how critical managers are in agile transformations succeeding? Probably not deeply enough! Let’s! Nov. 13, 5:30pm. www.meetup.com/enterprise-a...
And if you really want to know about books (and authoring books), read Michael Castleman's fascinating book, The Untold Story of Books: A Writer’s History of Book Publishing, amzn.to/48Yn4FM
November 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
And if you really want to know about books (and authoring books), read Michael Castleman's fascinating book, The Untold Story of Books: A Writer’s History of Book Publishing, amzn.to/48Yn4FM
This “fireside chat” I did a few years ago starts with my (not exactly linear) career story - programmer to mgmt - and coauthoring our book Managing the Unmanageable - then moves on to creating culture for teams to thrive, great teams, & effective product creation… www.youtube.com/watch?v=SazO...
Managing The Unmanageable With Ron Lichty - North Fireside Chat
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November 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This “fireside chat” I did a few years ago starts with my (not exactly linear) career story - programmer to mgmt - and coauthoring our book Managing the Unmanageable - then moves on to creating culture for teams to thrive, great teams, & effective product creation… www.youtube.com/watch?v=SazO...
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As a leader, you need to have a hard look at how you are dealing with Technical Debt, because "Compound Interest Works Both Ways" softwareascraft.com/posts/compou...
Compound Interest Works Both Ways
Every shortcut is a loan against your future velocity, and the interest rate is brutal.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
As a leader, you need to have a hard look at how you are dealing with Technical Debt, because "Compound Interest Works Both Ways" softwareascraft.com/posts/compou...
Protein powders have a troubling risk action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251014-...
Tell the FDA to set strict lead limits now!
Dangerous lead levels found in protein powder
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October 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Protein powders have a troubling risk action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251014-...
Short video on surveillance pricing that's well worth watching! www.youtube.com/shorts/WVU1C...
Corporate America's pricing secret hurts your wallet!
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October 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Short video on surveillance pricing that's well worth watching! www.youtube.com/shorts/WVU1C...
What motivates programmers? What motivated me when I was a programmer? plusplus.co/ideas/create...
Why Creating A Learning Environment Essential For Technical Teams | PlusPlus
How do you maintain a learning environment going forward? Ron Lichty, consultant and former Apple team lead, explains.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
What motivates programmers? What motivated me when I was a programmer? plusplus.co/ideas/create...
I can claim a certain amount of prescience.
At Agile Open CA I proposed - and facilitated - a session on training distributed teams.
In 2015.
At Agile Open CA I proposed - and facilitated - a session on training distributed teams.
In 2015.
October 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I can claim a certain amount of prescience.
At Agile Open CA I proposed - and facilitated - a session on training distributed teams.
In 2015.
At Agile Open CA I proposed - and facilitated - a session on training distributed teams.
In 2015.
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Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you
That is not, in fact, what ICE does
He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine
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That is not, in fact, what ICE does
He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...
Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day
Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you
That is not, in fact, what ICE does
He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...
That is not, in fact, what ICE does
He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...