THAT'S NOT RESILIENCE, THAT'S STOCKHOLM SYNDROME: A Gen X Manifesto Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Recognize That We've Been Gaslit Into Accepting Our Own Irrelevance Let me tell you something that's going to make you uncomfortable: Gen X doesn't have grit. We don't have resilience. We don't
Lesson 2: The Xenomorph Is Technical Debt There’s a sound you learn to fear in management. It’s not the hiss of executives demanding “visibility.” It’s not the whisper of HR reminding you about “performance calibration.” It’s that quiet noise — like something moving in the walls. That’s technical debt. You can’t see
Lesson 1: Weyland-Yutani Is Your C-Suite I didn’t want this job. Nobody does. Nobody grows up dreaming of leading retrospectives or balancing headcount spreadsheets. I wanted to build. I wanted to write code that sang, patch networks that hummed, push systems until they sparked. But somewhere along the way, they dragged me into the boardroom.
Scrum Featured Chestbursters in Scrum: Midnight Management Lessons from the Abyss I didn’t choose this life. I chose engineering — the solitude of code, the clean terror of debugging at dawn, the strange joy of making machines obey. But somewhere along the line, someone looked at me and said the most damning words of all: “You’d make a good manager.
