#24 | Sunday reads for EMs

My favourite reads of the week to make your Sunday a little more inspiring.

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Invert, Always Invert (James Stanier)

tl;dr: Instead of asking “how do we succeed?” ask “how would this absolutely fail?” and then systematically avoid those failure modes. This applies beautifully to rollouts, architectural decisions, and estimation.