Company Culture on I am Lino

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.

"Senior": the title you earn by surviving, not by standing out

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A friend who works at a consultancy has spent five years wondering when they’ll finally make him “senior.” His desk neighbor has been one for two years, even though he’s shown up late four times this week, keeps making the same mistakes as always, and whose most memorable technical contribution was changing the IDE color theme. The difference between them: the colleague hasn’t left. Yet.

Open any job listing in the tech industry and you’ll find they’re looking for senior developers. Thousands of them. Always. It’s the most in-demand profile, the most sought-after, the one that shows up most often in LinkedIn headlines alongside buzzwords like “go-to resource,” “technical leadership,” and “systemic thinking.”