How Grumbles Helps

Having been robot-wrangling for a solid year now, I continue to feel like they give me superpowers. However, like all of us, I have a front-row seat to increasingly attractive garbage the robots are capable of generating at scale. I like to think that I am human enough to detect the slop, but the rate&#8230; <a class="excerpt-more" href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/how-grumbles-helps/">more</a>

8/19/2026
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The Promotion Paradox

In our 101st episode, we kick off a new era of episode titles as your best engineer becomes the interim manager of their own team &#8212; delegation, one-on-ones, the three-year rule, a visit from Chili Palmer, the Cadillac of minivans salesman himself, and the only question that matters: do you actually want this job? Down&#8230; <a class="excerpt-more" href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-promotion-paradox/">more</a>

8/15/2026
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RIP Claude

I&#8217;ve used Claude quite a bit for both the upcoming new book and the next edition of Managing Humans. I wrote the entire book, but, as I&#8217;ve done for years, I&#8217;ve used the robots for editing, research, and data wrangling. When Anthropic announced they were going to do &#8220;text and image&#8221; watermarking, my eyebrow was&#8230; <a class="excerpt-more" href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/rip-claude/">more</a>

8/14/2026
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Fifteen Tics

Remember Manager Readmes? The idea was that a manager would take the time to write up their leadership style, what they valued, and their principles. A fad that started in 2017, hit its peak in 2018, and then faded.1 I wrote one in March 2018 and enjoyed the process, but while I published mine, I&#8230; <a class="excerpt-more" href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/fifteen-tics/">more</a>

8/11/2026
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R.I.P. Your Backlog

If everything is going to plan and your operating system is in dark mode, then randsinrepose.com is now dark for you. If you are a light mode person, you can click on the Moon in the upper right of the navigation and experience dark mode stylings. Click again to return. Why now? Well, I was&#8230; <a class="excerpt-more" href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/r-i-p-your-backlog/">more</a>

8/9/2026
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The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing

Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are composed of letters and how each of those individual letters has been designed to convey a small bit of meaning. If you see the typography rather than read the&#8230; <a class="excerpt-more" href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/">more</a>

8/6/2026
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The Apple Upgrade Situation

The final measure of any financial negotiation is the feeling of whether or not you got a &#8220;deal&#8221;. That prior sentence&#8230; makes no sense. I wrote &#8220;measure,&#8221; and then six words later I wrote &#8220;feeling&#8221;. A feeling is never a measure, but yet, when you hand over your hard-earned money to buy a thing, you&#8217;ll&#8230; <a class="excerpt-more" href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-apple-upgrade-situation/">more</a>

7/30/2026
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The Motivation

Why do I write? I write because I like the mental state created by writing. It calms and quiets me, but that is not why I write. Why do I write? I write because I am curious and like to understand the world. Writing forces me to understand a thing, a person, a situation. I&#8230; <a class="excerpt-more" href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-motivation/">more</a>

7/28/2026
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The One About The Important Thing

One hundred episodes. For this occasion, years in the coming, Lyle and I talk about the thing itself — the nuts and bolts of the podcast, including how the robots now do an alarming amount of the work, what a hundred episodes taught us, and why we use the “The One About…” naming convention. &#x1f381;:&#8230; <a class="excerpt-more" href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-one-about-the-important-thing/">more</a>

7/13/2026
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The One About the Pro Leisure Circuit (Again)

In our 99th episode, Rands is back on the Pro Leisure Circuit &#8212; infinite time, a suspicious amount of Arc Raiders, and no wind in the sails &#8212; and we wrestle with what actually motivates a person when the engine of work goes quiet. The usual suspects: Arc Raiders, absorbing ten-hour days like it&#8217;s a&#8230; <a class="excerpt-more" href="https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-one-about-the-pro-leisure-circuit-again/">more</a>

7/9/2026
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