Your new direct report doesn't sleep

On leading teams where half the contributors are human and the other half don't care about your org chart

Apr 13 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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You are the weather

You went home thinking it was a perfectly normal day. Your team didn't.

Apr 7 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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March 2026

Prepare for the worst, then forget you did

A pessimist and an optimist walk into a bar... err, office. They need each other. They also drive each other insane.

Mar 30 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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The invisible org chart won't put itself on your resume

On doing a lot for other people and still having an answer when James McAvoy asks.

Mar 23 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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You lost them before you got there

You had the data, analysis and recommendation. They still didn't hear you.

Mar 10 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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One person is a complainer

Two people is a pattern. Three is a movement.

Mar 2 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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February 2026

Stop being the decision bottleneck

Four gaps between saying 'you're empowered' and your team believing it

Feb 17 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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Your team won't challenge your ideas (that's the problem)

Why teams won't challenge you and how to fix it

Feb 12 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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Everyone saw it coming except you

The squirrel-meerkat principle for building peripheral vision

Feb 9 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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Antifragile teams aren't stress-free, they're stress-trained

How to build teams that adapt when everything's changing

Feb 2 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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January 2026

When AI writes the code, what's left for engineers?

Why judgment, prevention, and curation became the skills that matter

Jan 27 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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The code works fine, the humans keep breaking things

Mental models for code reviews, collaboration, and your blind spots

Jan 22 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic

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