Management on I am Lino

Multi-Project Hell: On Three Teams at Once and Truly on None

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a moment in every tech career when you stop having “a project” and start having a collection.

You’re not a solutions architect; you’re a sampler platter. And we’re not even talking about two or three fronts here: we’re talking about a minimum of four projects at once, each with its own ecosystem, its own drama, and its own slide decks.

And then, of course, you wonder why you end so many days feeling like you never went deep on anything.

Meetings That Should Have Been a Pull Request

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s an unwritten rule in our profession that says: if a technical decision can be made by reading 10 lines of code and leaving a comment on a pull request, the responsible thing to do is lock ten people in a poorly ventilated room for an hour to talk about it.

If there’s PowerPoint involved, that’s considered governance.

This isn’t an exaggeration. In many teams, the meeting is the smallest unit of visible work: if you’re not on a video call, you’re not working.

The False Consensus: When Nobody Dares Say the Idea Is Bad

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a corporate scene that fascinates me precisely because it’s so perfectly ridiculous.

Someone presents an idea that’s weak, half-baked, clearly in need of work.

While they talk, you watch half the room mentally tear it apart in real time. Someone thinks, “this doesn’t scale.” Someone else, “this breaks half the system.” Someone else, “business asked for this without talking to anyone.”

And yet, when it’s time to weigh in, what comes out of the room is a chorus of heads nodding along with that “yeah, yeah, makes sense, let’s move on” look.

The cult of urgency: when everything was needed yesterday and tomorrow will be worse

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

At a software company I won’t name (but which absolutely exists), a developer received the same message three Fridays in a row at 5:45 pm: “It’s critical, I need this today.” On the third Friday, he finished the fix, deployed it, and nobody opened it until the following Tuesday. The developer is still in therapy. The manager has had the same unread email sitting in his backlog for two months.