Food & Cooking
The true meaning of tea
Substitutes for the thermal experience
You can taste it with your eyes
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Madness
If you can't beat the classics
Waiting there to be experienced
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Chef's Table
Momofuku
The Incompatible Food Triad
Art of the Menu
I recommend eating chips
In Praise of Small Menus
On onion cutting
Software that nobody wants
The 'date scrum' anti-pattern
Date Scrum is an R&D pattern where developers are asked to estimate software project requirements upfront for the entirety of the project. After the project is green lighted and the budget is set based on the final estimates, the team then holds daily scrums to status and manage risk as they “iterate” the solution toward the release date. To some, this approach is described as doing Waterfall in sprints.
The fundamental problem with Date Scrum is that the team is de-focused from discovering the best solution. Instead they are heavily focused on delivering Something™ by the Date™. Engineers are problem solvers, and if the primary problem becomes delivering Something™ that will pass QA by the Date™, they will, with enough pressure, solve that exact problem.