Category: Short
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Scrum Fables: Done Done
Done. Done done. Done done done. I’ve been in meetings where these all seemed like valid categories — until you step back and see it for what it is.
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Scrum Fables: The Red Flag
Some teams race ahead without checking the map. They’re so focused on “winning” they don’t notice they’re headed toward the wrong goal. Speed doesn’t help if you’re running in the wrong direction.
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Why Some Meetings Should Never Be Cancelled
Meetings aren’t the problem. Cancelling them is. This post is about missed conversations, broken processes, and why skipping your team’s hygiene routine can leave a surprisingly bad smell.
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Scrum Fables: Retroactive Solutions
I’ve sat through both kinds of reflection meetings: the ones where nothing changes (frustrating, pointless, soul-draining)… and the ones where even a tiny adjustment makes everything smoother next time. This fable is about that difference.
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Scrum Fables : A Faster Horse
When people wheel out that fake quote about “faster horses,” I always imagine one with rockets strapped to its sides. It’s surprisingly common for people to mistake a solution for the solution — without really understanding the problem they’re trying to solve.
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Scrum Fables: The Plan
I’ve been reading a lot of fables lately, and I had the idea to use them to show how things can go wrong with Scrum (though they apply just as well outside of Scrum). I’ve seen many tasks that are literally just a title and no details, and then people try to implement that. This…
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The Definition of “Bug” Is a Mute Point—Here’s How We Fixed It
When everything’s a bug, nothing is. When no one agrees what “bug” means, the list just keeps growing. And growing. This is a story about how we think we understand a word—and what happens when we don’t agree on what it actually means. And why defining “bug” was the fix we didn’t know we needed.
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Why I’d Travel 100 Years for KitKats (But Probably Won’t).
WordPress asked which future I’d travel to. I considered utopias, sci-fi marvels, and yes — chocolate-based financial planning. But after reviewing all of human history and my dinner plans, I realised something… The future is uncertain. Except for one thing. I’m having pizza at 8.
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Scrum Doesn’t Work Without This One Thing
Think Scrum fails because the stories are bad? Or the process is wrong? Nope. It’s something deeper—and way more human.
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Shellacked: The Turtle and the Duck
We all polish parts of ourselves before we share them — stories, ideas, a piece of who we are. But even friendly taps can leave marks. This is a fable about care disguised as critique, and what happens when quiet damage goes unnoticed… until it doesn’t.
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I Solved Parking Like a Maths Puzzle—Now I’m at Peace (And So Are My Peas)
I cracked the Tesco’s parking code, baffled my friends, and coined “lateral insight.” It’s peas, parking bays, and a spiral way of seeing the world.
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None of These Were My Name. All of Them Were Me.
Nicknames aren’t always flattering. They’re not always accurate. But sometimes, they stick—because they reflect how you made someone feel.
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The Quiet Rhythm of Freedom
A quiet ride. A trusted companion. A rhythm that carried me through joy, pain, and everything in between. This is my love letter to cycling—and all it’s taught me.
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The Most Beautiful Watch in the World (And Why That Doesn’t Matter)
I spent years defining the perfect watch. Then I found it—and realized the real treasure was the search itself.
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I Rode So Much My Bike Disappeared
What starts with a crash ends with flight. A short story about bikes, falling, flying—and what real freedom feels like when you no longer have to think about control.
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The Best Brand You’ve Never Heard Of (Featuring a Clocktopus)
A story about lights, clocks, magnets—and why my favourite brand doesn’t even exist.
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Inappropriate Feet, Unicorns, and a Road Ahead
It starts with bad weather. Detours through unicorns. Ends with a road worth riding. Trust me. Well, I don’t live my life by this quote: “There is no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.” – Sir Ranulph Fiennes I hate this expression. Yes, there is definitely such a thing as bad weather: hurricanes,…
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The One With the Steak Shorts
My favourite holiday? Easy.Mallorca, with a group of good friends, legs full of lactic acid, and—for two riders—steaks in their shorts. Weird, I know.Stick with me. It was my first cycling holiday with a group of really good friends. The kind of trip that blurs the line between boot camp and fun—early mornings, long rides,…
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I Went Camping and All I Got Was Existential Clarity and a Baguette
Have you ever been camping? I went camping as a kid and came back convinced France was the worst place on earth. Years later, I went back with a bike and discovered I was wrong. (Also, bread. So much bread.) I used to go camping every year with my parents.We’d cram everything into a Ford…
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A Dancing Monkey Can Pelvic Thrust a Thousand Words
A terrible dancer. A loop of unearned confidence. A monkey with no self-awareness and too much thrust. This emoji isn’t just chaos — it’s a mirror.
Davide la Locomotive 