Making Shit Up as a Service

Taste, conviction, craft, judgment, and other lies we tell ourselves

22 hrs ago • Jim Hughes

September 2026

Tilling the Soil

Reading and re-reading for great success

Sep 13 • Jim Hughes

August 2026

Bumper Bowling

You are not as good at managing people as you think.

Aug 31 • Jim Hughes

The Help

Cross-Functional Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley

Aug 9 • Jim Hughes

July 2026

The Accidental Corporate Apologist

How I learned to stop worrying and love my job at BigCo

Jul 25 • Jim Hughes

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Adaptive Challenges vs. Technical Problems

That "AI Adoption" program you started is not working...ask me how I know.

Jul 12 • Jim Hughes

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Pace Layering: The Slow Executive Wins the Race

How companies learn and what happens after they are built

Jul 5 • Jim Hughes

June 2026

Warrior, Mage, Priest, Merchant

Treating leadership like an RPG

Jun 14 • Jim Hughes

April 2026

You’re Not Ready

The Hidden Resume of Senior Leaders

Apr 26 • Jim Hughes

February 2026

The Black Hole of Engineering Spend

In the relentless corporate grind, R&D budgets transform into black holes as engineering costs escape scrutiny. We're desperately chasing innovation…

Feb 20 • Jim Hughes

January 2026

Throwing Away Your Legos

If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably the sort of person who has heard the advice to Give Away Your Legos. It’s the notion that as your company…

Jan 18 • Jim Hughes

Management by Model

Leading at Scale Without Drowning

Jan 8 • Jim Hughes