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Fate Games at Town-Hall Scale: The Grand Prix

“What started as a snarky wheel-spinner for one team's standup ended up on a company VM, then in three different teams' rotations, then on the VP's monitor at an all-hands with 200 people in the room. The wheel maxes out around 12. The Race Game I'd built as a joke turned into a heat-tournament — Grand Prix — that scales to whatever the room is. Today I'm putting it on the projects page and open-sourcing it.”

Roadmap reviews when half the work is non-deterministic

“I stole four columns from my therapist; my engineers stopped sighing.”

Picking Speakers Without Picking Favorites

“In an eight-person standup the same two people speak every day. In a sixteen-person oncall rotation the same four take 80% of the pages. The fix isn't 'let's be more inclusive' — it's making the picking mechanical so the loudest voice and the manager's habits stop deciding. I built a wheel-spinner called Fate Games. The fairness story turned out to be one specific algorithm — a depleting pool — and the choice to lean all the way into the snark.”

New: Drive Effective, Efficient Agile Meetings

“Flexibility ≠ formlessness. A flexible meeting is a 15-minute meeting with a tight agenda, not an open mic.”