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Process Optimization

Eliminate bureaucracy. Calculate bullshit-to-value ratios and kill processes that waste more time than they save.

How to Do a Project Health Check Without Wasting Everyone's Time

Aug 25, 2025

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12 min read

How to Do a Project Health Check Without Wasting Everyone's Time

Your project health assessment is killing productivity with status theater. Here's a 30-minute health check that identify real problems instead of wasting time.

Agile Without Scrum: Is That Even Allowed?

Aug 18, 2025

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11 min read

Agile Without Scrum: Is That Even Allowed?

Your scrum theater kills productivity while ignoring agile principles. Focus on outcomes over ceremonies to build software that actually matters.

Story Points: The Exhausting Philosophy of Fake Precision

Aug 11, 2025

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10 min read

Story Points: The Exhausting Philosophy of Fake Precision

Here's why agile estimation is broken, what story points actually measure, and better ways to plan work that doesn't insult everyone's intelligence.

Stop Manually Updating Reports

Jul 28, 2025

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1 min read

Stop Manually Updating Reports

Copying data between spreadsheets. Manually updating reports. Sending the same emails weekly. You're a human API with terrible error handling.

Process Bullshit Detector

Jul 28, 2025

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1 min read

Process Bullshit Detector

You've got processes for creating processes. Forms to request forms. Meetings about having better meetings. It's bureaucracy performing bureaucracy.

Process Optimization for People Who Actually Want to Get Shit Done

Jul 23, 2025

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12 min read

Process Optimization for People Who Actually Want to Get Shit Done

Cut through process theater and workflow bloat. Learn to automate tasks, eliminate bureaucracy, and build efficient systems.

Agile Theatre Bingo: When Standups Become Stage Plays

Jul 14, 2025

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7 min read

Agile Theatre Bingo: When Standups Become Stage Plays

Agile transformation turned into performance art where everyone knows their role, but not why they're on stage? This will make your ceremonies bearable.

Independence Day: Time to Declare Freedom from Bullshit Meetings

Jul 4, 2025

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2 min read

Independence Day: Time to Declare Freedom from Bullshit Meetings

Declare freedom from useless meetings. This guide & free toolkit shows you how to eliminate meeting theater and reclaim your calendar.

The 4 Types of Meetings Destroying Your Freedom

Jul 3, 2025

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4 min read

The 4 Types of Meetings Destroying Your Freedom

Your calendar is enslaved to useless meetings that accomplish nothing. Part one of our guide to help reclaim your time for actual work.

The Meeting Audit Framework

Jul 3, 2025

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4 min read

The Meeting Audit Framework

Your calendar is enslaved to useless meetings that accomplish nothing. Part three of our guide to help reclaim your time for actual work.

The Bullshit-to-Value Ratio: A Simple Way to Evaluate Any Process

Jun 23, 2025

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13 min read

The Bullshit-to-Value Ratio: A Simple Way to Evaluate Any Process

Stop wasting time on process theater. Use this framework to identify bullshit processes killing your productivity and implement real improvements.

APIs: Stop Copy-Pasting Like It's 1995

Jun 21, 2025

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12 min read

APIs: Stop Copy-Pasting Like It's 1995

Stop copy pasting data between tools when workflow automation could handle it in 30 seconds. Learn how APIs save hours of mind-numbing manual work.

Agile Theatre: The Most Expensive Improv Show in Tech

Jun 20, 2025

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18 min read

Agile Theatre: The Most Expensive Improv Show in Tech

Your agile costs $150K-200K annually in theater that burns teams. Fix scrum problems without destroying morale.

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