Dimitri Glazkov

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2025

2024

2023

Why AI orchestrationNov 3
Makers and MagiciansOct 23
Zones of LLM predictabilityOct 19
Doers, Thinkers, and MagiciansOct 12
Placing and wiring nodes in BreadboardOct 4
Traits of a maker mindsetSep 25
The engine and the carSep 17
Steady winds, doldrums, and hurricanesSep 14
Diving into unpredictabilitySep 10
Sometimes you gotta hit the wallSep 7
Pace layers of predictabilitySep 5
AI Patterns and BreadboardAug 28
Composing graphs with BreadboardAug 22
The ODA and OODA stancesAug 13
One miracle at a timeAug 5
Build a thing to build the thingAug 3
Live as our customerJul 30
The rise of makersJul 23
The gifts of failureJun 21
Gravity and waterJun 20
Models and structured reasoningJun 13
Development environment for rapid experimentationJun 5
Four layersMay 29
Fix-forward and rollback commit stancesMay 21
AI Developer Experience AsymptotesMay 18
Asymptotes and Value NichesMay 17
SchemishMay 6
Stages of project forkingMay 6
The waterlineMay 4
Limits of applying AIApr 29
Concept minerApr 26
Separating cargo from the trainApr 23
Reasoning boxesApr 20
PorcelainsApr 17
Innovation frontierApr 12
Learning from the nadirApr 10
How we engage with LLMsApr 7
Sailors and PiratesApr 2
Nudges, boosts, bumpers, and tiltsMar 26
Receiving negative feedbackMar 20
Deep Stack EngineerMar 17
Layer gapsMar 12
Decision-making mindsetsMar 4
Shadow GristleMar 2
The law of tightening apertureFeb 28
The gardenerFeb 22
Strategy aperture gifts and cursesFeb 19
Strategy ApertureFeb 18
The Wallpapering PrincipleFeb 14
The Layering PrincipleFeb 14
Chances to get it rightFeb 8
Beyond pros and consFeb 3
Growth and control biasesJan 30
The tension between growth and controlJan 30
Degrees of Open SourceJan 22
How to think and what to thinkJan 17
Edgewise ThinkingJan 14
WandererJan 8
No ship umsJan 7
Dandelions and Elephants, IllustratedJan 2

2022

What the heck is strategy work?Nov 17
Being StrategicNov 13
Dandelion/Elephant Strategy RubricNov 8
Generating ideas and strategy coherenceNov 2
Convergent innovationNov 2
Dandelion or Elephant?Oct 24
Embrace the suckOct 24
Shadows and CursesOct 19
Caring for elephantsOct 13
Growing dandelionsOct 6
A crutchSep 29
Organizational pathologySep 25
The Perspective LadderSep 18
r/K selection and innovationSep 15
e-LOCSep 12
Making FiftySep 4
The Plumber AgeSep 1
The Starship of TheseusAug 29
Strategy and FOMOAug 25
Vision-oriented and impact-oriented mindsetsAug 25
Nudging Embodied StrategyAug 17
Embodied StrategyAug 16
Practices to break out of the cycle of not-learningAug 9
The cycle of not-learningAug 9
How to get trappedAug 1
Loops: dead or aliveJul 31
Builder and Gardener MindsetsJul 28
Becoming a settingJul 26
Finding the settingJul 21
Customer-vendor loops and their settingJul 21
Product and ecosystem loop perspectivesJun 30
Stages of the customer-vendor loopJun 26
Asymptote analysis using customer-vendor loopJun 20
Making sense of SWOT with customer-vendor loopsJun 19
Customer-Vendor LoopJun 16
Continuously Integrated StrategyJun 10
MidjourneyJun 8
Blueprint, Compass, and RemodelingJun 6
StakesJun 2
Organizational cartographyMay 29
Intentionality and meaningMay 26
A vision and a hallucinationMay 22
LimitsMay 20
Archers, Captains, and StrategistsMay 14
The problem understanding frameworkMay 12
FramingMay 12
Touching infinityMay 5
Model compression and usApr 27
Model compressionApr 26
ChangeApr 21
Life of a solutionApr 19
A SolutionApr 11
Rubber duck meetingsApr 8
Minimum viable legibilityApr 6
Cheesecake and BaklavaApr 5
UnderstandingMar 27
A problemMar 23
Mental modelsMar 20
The platform two-stepMar 17
Solved, solvable, unsolvableMar 16
Moving the ladderMar 11
Racing toward or running awayMar 9
Awareness of interoceptionMar 3
Choosing kaleMar 2
Polarity of intention, structure, and capacityFeb 28
The cost of opinionFeb 23
Tension in Shared Mental Model SpaceFeb 17
Radical Candor as fallback notch locatorFeb 13
Adult development and coaching expectationsFeb 12
Short-term divergent, long-term convergentFeb 9
Tension between graphs and treesFeb 6
The structure of a tiltFeb 4
Objects in vision are farther than they appearFeb 2
A user-situated trustworthiness modelJan 30
Tracing the boundaryJan 28
Behavior over time graphing toolJan 26
Behavior over time graphs and ways to influenceJan 20
Normative, Informative and Generative VoicesJan 17
The value triangleJan 13
Lenses, framings, and modelsJan 11
Bumpers, Boosts, and TiltsJan 6
Silly mathJan 6
How to make a breakthroughJan 2

2021

JanklessDec 23
The compounding effects of OODADec 23
Oodles of OODA loopsDec 23
Performance Management BlindspotDec 18
Cravings and AversionsDec 17
Model flatteningDec 16
The OODA insideDec 9
The expectation gradientDec 9
OODA and IntentionDec 9
OO and DANov 30
Prediction errors and jankNov 28
The model underneathNov 25
Retained and immediate modeNov 25
Micro and macro jankNov 25
OODA, unrolledNov 17
JankNov 14
The OODA LoopNov 14
Enumerating constraintsNov 10
Communicating strategy as constraintsNov 7
A strategy and a planNov 5
Slow downNov 2
The structure of a principleOct 29
Stages of customer-centric maturityOct 28
Framing and solving diverge-converge exercisesOct 24
The story of agencyOct 23
The language frames the storyOct 21
The developer funnelOct 20
Developer surfaceOct 18
The story of belongingOct 14
Veering toward first-order effectsOct 11
Cutting or highlighting?Oct 8
Making cross-cutting investmentsOct 5
Heuristics will be discerned and codifiedOct 3
Hosting and hosted API design perspectivesOct 1
The fractal dragonSep 29
Causal chainsSep 27
Ecosystems from product and user perspectiveSep 24
Flux budget and predictability footprintSep 24
Intention and shared mental model spaceSep 23
The story of a threatSep 17
Prototype the problemSep 17
Organizing and sensing connectionsSep 16
Say it in many different waysSep 10
The story of an opportunitySep 10
Consistency, cohesion, and coherenceSep 6
Limits of attachment and capacity are interlinkedSep 3
It’s a unicycle!Sep 3
Complexity escape routes and listening to learnSep 2
Settled and “not settled yet” framingsAug 27
Rigor and shared mental model spaceAug 26
Correlated compounding loopsAug 25
The miracle countAug 20
Effectiveness and certaintyAug 20
Open-endedness and bedrockAug 13
Growth, control, and tricyclesAug 12
Limits to seeing: capacity and attachmentAug 6
Triggered, intentional, and spontaneous coherenceAug 6
Orders of HumilityAug 5
Rock tumbler teamsJul 30
Why will this be hard for us?Jul 29
Want, should, willJul 23
People-keeping and mission-keepingJul 23
The music we playJul 23
The nature of the challengeJul 2
Mindset transitions and coherenceJul 2
Polarity-based API layeringJul 2
Spelunking our network of assumptionsJun 25
Questing, Scaling, KeepingJun 25
The rewrite countJun 25
Being excited about disagreementJun 18
Own the tensionJun 18
Organizational mindsets are developmentalJun 18
Align on interopJun 11
Letting go of mind-readingJun 11
The challenge of coherenceJun 11
Sitting with discomfortJun 4
A motor and a rudderJun 4
Forces of the pace layering confusionJun 4
Watch for platforms to emergeMay 28
Playing to changeMay 28
Weak opinions, strongly heldMay 28
Crappy and the fear of rejectionMay 21
The productification trapMay 21
The ghost of unclear theory of changeMay 21
Something will get optimizedMay 14
Leading while sleepwalkingMay 14
What the heck is 3P?May 14
The Relationship PolarityApr 4

2020

Adult Development PrimerDec 20
The Tree of SelfOct 25
Transformational LearningOct 11
DecoherenceSep 5
Somatic Signals: How I use the Four Needs FrameworkAug 30
The Suffering of ExpectationsAug 23
The Existential AnxietiesJul 23
Tension between Purpose and SafetyJul 8
Total Customer SatisfactionMay 26
The Fall of the CarapaceApr 12
The tension between Agency and BelongingMar 1
The Four Needs FrameworkFeb 23
If I don’t wake up, I stay asleepJan 18

2019

2014

Going Forward Is Leaving Past BehindApr 24

2011

What the Heck is Shadow DOM?Jan 14

2009

From HTML5 to Gibson’s Matrix?May 25

2008

Lucky ChromeSep 3
Information Architecture Presentation at IPSAJul 11
Thank You, BirminghamJul 6
Wrap Your Head Around Gears WorkersJun 2
.NET on Gears: A TutorialJan 31

2007

Back into the Future of Web: HTML5 SQL PlayerNov 17
Jumping Off Audience Navigation BandwagonNov 15
Chewing on Open SocialNov 4
Slides from my IPSA presentation on HTML5 and Google GearsNov 1
HTML5 Wrapper for GearsOct 22
My iPhone SDKOct 17
HighEdWebDev 2007Oct 13
Call Me GearheadOct 7
Margin Marks UI ConceptSep 4
The Horrific Markup of Live Spaces and Possible Explanation of Dare not Getting MicroformatsAug 24
Framework for Tomorrow’s WebAug 17
Javascript Makes Me GiddyAug 12
ECMAScript 4 on the ServerAug 10
Client-side Performance TipJul 26
Goodbye, SubtextMay 28
BarCampAustinMar 10

2006

Clairvoyant Software EngineeringNov 28
Attention Google: License ActiveSync!Nov 8
Fighting Email Spam, Part N+1Sep 6
BarCampBirmingham Sessions in a PodcastSep 5
GMail Overrun by SpamSep 5
Micforormats: Yay or Nay?Jun 23
BarCamp Birmingham: Unconferencing the Magic CityJun 21
Microformats in AlabamaJun 8
Off To NetsquaredMay 27
GWT And Now Script#: The Agony of a Thousand PuppiesMay 23
Want to Be in a Movie?May 4
One-liners: How To Explain Tags to a SQL GuyApr 26
My NotebookApr 11
REST UnrestMar 28
Mapendar Me!Mar 28
Latent Patent DisastersMar 28
CNN.com RedesignsMar 26
Lo-REST: This is your REST on CrackMar 22
Microformats AbuzzMar 22
Back? By Popular? Demand?Mar 21

2005

2004

2003

First, InauguralDec 17