The Beautiful Mess · John Cutlerarticle
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Exit feed readerIf what you are mapping is incoherent, don’t fall in love with the map (or your personal ability to navigate with it).
Jira disaster recovery tells you how to get back to green.
(I have a question at the end, if you get there)
Early in my product career, I wore many hats.
Smoothing metrics can hide the very problems operators and boards need to see.
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Nine ACP exams down, a tenth on the calendar, and I still tell people to go for it.
Here’s a simple model for thinking about AI success in organizations.
A parody song and Levi’s ill-fated entry into suits illustrate a common mistake: listening to customers, then interpreting their words to fit the strategy you already wanted to…
Atlassian's agentic Jira launch isn't a new strategy — it's the Team '26 manifesto shipping as receipts.
tl;dr: AI does not eliminate complexity, coupling, coordination, uncertainty, or decay.
Is it actually harder to land an Atlassian admin job right now, or does it just feel that way from inside a job search?