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Revisiting: Case for Faster Flow and Right-sizing
TL;DR (AI-powered): Discarding work-in-progress takes discipline — faster flow and smaller batches reduce how often you face that decision.
Apr 23
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Rodrigo Sperb
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AI Can Synthesize My Words… But It Still Misses “Me”
TL;DR (AI-powered): I compared Claude’s and Grok’s versions of my recorded rambling.
Apr 16
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Rodrigo Sperb
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Ground Yourself in What Doesn’t Change
TL;DR: I doubled down in the previous experiment to leverage AI to produce a more refined text based on raw input from me “thinking out loud”.
Apr 9
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Rodrigo Sperb
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Ideas Get Better If You Let Them Breathe, and AI Can Help With Some of That
TL;DR (AI-powered): Ideas get better through deliberate iteration and simplification — yet most teams stay trapped in endless execution mode.
Apr 2
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Rodrigo Sperb
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The Real Difference Isn’t Story vs. Epic – It’s Intention, and Outcome Vs. Output
TL;DR (AI-powered): Often debates about whether something should be a story, epic, or feature miss the point.
Mar 26
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Rodrigo Sperb
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Stop Worshiping Heroes: The Hidden Cost of Rewarding Crisis Saviors
TL;DR (AI-powered): (Some) Organizations love dramatic “heroes” who save the day in crises—but quietly execute, prevent problems, and deliver consistent…
Mar 19
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Rodrigo Sperb
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Why Do We Estimate? (Spoiler: It’s Rarely About the Number)
TL;DR (AI-powered): Estimates (such as story points) rarely matter in isolation — their main value is surfacing different assumptions about complexity.
Mar 12
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Rodrigo Sperb
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Beyond Gut Feel: Practical Ways to Put a Finger on Cost of Delay
TL;DR (AI-powered): Cost of Delay is worth estimating — even roughly.
Mar 5
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Rodrigo Sperb
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