Teammate on most recent team gave me this parting feedback: “I learned a ton, we got lots done, our team dynamics were awesome, and I’ve never felt this kind of team feeling before.”

If your business makes software, I might be good for your business.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1750949585.435936

Hi folks! I’m looking for my next full-time role in engineering leadership (such as Director, VP, CTO) and/or senior engineering (such as Principal or Staff).

I love people, want them to succeed, and have fairly reliably made myself helpful.

You may already know me from Agile in 3 Minutes, my Coding Tour, my PubMob, meetups I've run, talks I've given, or approximately a zillion podcasts I've guested on. I'm happy to say my track record of being an effective influencer extends beyond social media.

Some of my core competencies:

- Coaching (technical and otherwise, all levels of the org)
- Managing (risks, products, and people)
- Contributing (tests, code, relentless improvements to developer UX, you name it)
- Inviting and supporting meaningful conversations
- Making and supporting effective decisions
- Orienting myself — and helping others orient themselves — in new problem spaces
- Seeking out and attending to unmet needs
- Rooting practical daily choices in values and principles, and vice versa
- Making workplaces more humane
- Supporting people as the whole human beings they are
- Giving, always and constructively, a shit

People saying nice things about my…

- Engineering leadership: https://latentagility.com/bio
- Consulting and coaching: https://latentagility.com/testimonials
- Agile in 3 Minutes micropodcast: https://agilein3minut.es/comments

If you (or someone you know) need your organization influenced from within by an Amitai, please get in touch:

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmonz
- https://latentagility.com/link/free-call

[and please share this freely]

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110814509447911151

Forecast: 40% chance of interdimensional portal.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110810787303343800

This #WeeklyPiano is brought to you by timeshifting. In advance of trading piano access for beach access, I prepared a couple more #Mordasov Jazz Miniatures for us. Here’s No. 23, “Listen to the Rhythm”:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s8gB_4xmR0o&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=40

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures #SlavicJazz

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110805063893648858

16 years ago, I got invited to perform. I felt very wobbly about accepting.

I had a teacher at the time, so I played the side-project piece for him.

He said “You love this music, and the way you play it, you give other people the chance to love it too.”

What a gift he gave me.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110799232361409675

Needing to be feeling a little more this. Will give it another go tomorrow.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110787803697175513

For this #WeeklyPiano I’m within reach of an instrument in good working order, and with a bit more free time. The payoff: we get some #Medtner! The second of the Op. 51 Skazki is a magical place to be. Get in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXEVo9VKpaw&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=42

#PianoMiniatures #PianoMiniature #Skazka @classicalmusic

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110769218415326410

Ran into trouble updating the #ApprovalTests package in #pkgsrc.

Gonna have to work through the trouble, though. Why?

I'll tell you in this brief, mild, and extemporaneous rant on #ExtremeProgramming-inspired risk management of software dependencies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lwunlK1Ri8&list=PLkuryjnRFclRpPiXrM4oNSY1_RJHMRcYs&index=1

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110749013668745763

Still navigating the timezone shift, everyone running on fumes. The next #Mordasov Jazz Miniature is “Dream”, and (like ours lately) it’s been cut short.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoqmV6nY_G8&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=38

#WeeklyPiano #PianoMiniatures #PianoMiniature #SlavicJazz

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110735979948293774

Usually I do one #WeeklyPiano per week. But now, while it’s briefly the case that a well-functioning piano is at hand, I’m scheming to record as much as I can.

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@shuruchan@ieji.de oooh, hadn't seen this. Thanks for the pointer!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110707199929364377

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNW_3fNK4oA&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=37

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110703281696567990

If #ExtremeProgramming (a set of risk-management techniques) were being formulated today, it’d have to say something about software dependencies.

Here’s what I think it’d say:

1. Be notified of available updates
2. Update eagerly and deploy
3. Automate for safety and ease

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110675214704303153

With second and third baby.

Photo credit: first baby.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110653306199891453

Time for some silent hotel-room streaming. We'll start with updating the #pkgsrc package of #Python #ApprovalTests, then we'll find other things to do for however long naptime lasts.

https://www.twitch.tv/schmonzie

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Visiting family for the weekend. Prerecorded for your enjoyment (?), this week’s #Mordasov Jazz Miniature is No. 20, “By the river”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTkx7yg1Ks&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=36

#WeeklyPiano #PianoMiniatures #PianoMiniature #SlavicJazz

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110644759441301333

@sevan@noc.social now I’m trying to backronymize “acvc” 🙂

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110634964148865058

@GeePawHill oh. Well I gotta be able to script the living shit out of this. I don’t like how much I had to learn about the CLI I’m fronting to be able to make mine, but I like mine for my purposes waaaaay better.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110634807655798552

@GeePawHill wait, I don’t get it. Why “grown-up” in that case — Grown-Up Interface?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110634796593594337

If there were a CLI program for controlling virtual machines of a variety of operating systems and hardware architectures (text mode only)…

What might you think to call it?

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