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Jamey Austin

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Jamey believes Thomas Mann had it right when he said, “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” When he isn’t twisting his beard staring at words on a screen, Jamey might be nodding off on Bart while reading and listening to Spotify, teaching his kids the finer points of rochambo, indulging a basketball jones, or generally spending an inordinate amount of time feeling completely amazed by it all.


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Is conflict killing your collaboration?

Actually, aggressive agreement is already doing it for you. Humans are hardwired to avoid conflict. Especially in the workplace, hostility is a threat that we avoid like the proverbial plague. But conflict can help. Questioning, disagreement, and argument can penetrate layers of opacity and get at the heart of matters. What’s more, conflict means people care. […]


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UConn finally lost, but here’s why they’re still winners

Just after my first season coaching my seven-year-old son’s YMCA basketball team, a friend posted this video on Facebook: Geno Auriemma, the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Connecticut. His team’s 111-game winning streak, the longest in history, was recently snapped. My heart just soared watching this. First off, everything […]


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Say sayonara to business jargon with corpspeak haiku

I know. Everybody’s too busy blowing things out of the water and knocking things out of the park to start talking and writing like actual humans. Well, guess what. The machines are coming, and they’re coming fast. If we don’t stop talking like machines and start re-engaging our clever human minds to come up with fresher […]


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User testing in the software development process… when you don’t have a billion users

In DevOps circles, there’s a myth about the software development process: real software teams automate everything. Look at Facebook. Look at Google. Look at Etsy. Companies killing it at DevOps. Hundreds of deployments a day. Push-button, amazing, magical automation. And like many myths, there’s some truth to this one. Continuous integration, automated testing, and cloud-deployment […]


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The me in team: personal productivity tips to boost your team game

You’ve heard a coach say: There ain’t no “I” in team! And that’s true enough. But, there is a “me.” (You take the m from the end and the e from the second position… oh, never mind.) At Atlassian, we believe good teams are made up of individuals with distinct strengths that collectively drive teamwork […]