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How many times has a project leader told you to “think different” while carving out no time, structure or community to allow it to happen? Workplaces often only reactively innovate in times of churn, when knee deep in the thick of a problem that needs a pivot, fast. Did you fix it...
When your job is to be the expert and advise other people, it can feel super awks to share your missteps. Yet if we always knew what we were doing, that would mean we were never growing. Or experimenting. Or honing our resilience. So how do we normalize and learn from the oops? By making it as...
Yayyy! We’re back from visiting Portland for RailsConf 2022!! It’s been a while since I’ve traveled to Portland and THIS trip was super special to me for many reasons. 5 days and 4 nights of awesome people, good fun, yummy foods, deep conversations, and MOST IMPORTANTLY I got the opportunity...
“Who would name their company Flagrant?” you might ask. After all, the word “flagrant” has a ton of negative connotations. If you fill in the blank “flagrant __”, you might come up with: flagrant violation, flagrant foul or flagrant disregard. Let’s face it — Flagrant is a weird thing to name...
No one wants to read about another company’s summit. Shit, most companies don’t want to read about their own summit. What IS helpful to read is how a “non-essential” investment like a summit can light a thousand soul fires inside your company. Especially if your company is remote-first. The...
Hey, how ya doin? Whatcha been up to over the last 2 years which totally count as dog years? This is a soul-check from your friends at Flagrant, who have been doing a lot of growing over the last 30 months. We started Flagrant in the thick of WTF times. And though it’s been hard,...
Behind Amanda Gorman’s crackling poems, Malala Yousafzai’s bullet scars and María Belón’s fight against a friggen TSUNAMI are the voices of powerful allies who empowered the shit out of their sisterhood. We shudder to think what the world would look like without women supporting women. And as...
I recently had the pleasure of refactoring a view file for a client project. The pleasure part of that sentence is a lie and definitely laced with sarcasm. I grew more grey hairs and thought of throwing my computer out the window several times. via GIPHY So why was it so damn difficult to...
Who would you rather slog through a tough project with – Kevin Hart or Christian Bale? Humor is one of the most powerful forms of emotional expression and team connection. A spontaneous snort/organ-splitting laugh/doubled-over wheeze all have the ability to leap-frog hierarchies and cultural...
What a sad situation. A lonely child record has a foreign key that points to a parent record of a primary key that no longer exists. Sob How could we, as software developers, let this happen? Imagine we have three tables: dogs, walkers, and a join table that is called dog_walkers. Great,...
As the 2022 Lunar New Year celebrations draws to a close, I am reflecting on how immensely grateful I am for this intense and magical time of year. In these past few days, I experienced grief from losing an ancestor, joy in celebrations with family, deep thought-provoking conversations with...
Have you heard of a “design pattern”? If you have, and if you know the history, and if you don’t feel like double- or triple-checking how well I’m going to explain this, you can skip this entire post. Otherwise, buckle up! Simply put, a “design pattern” is a general, reusable solution to a...
Take a deep breath in . . . And a long breath out . . . . . How are you doing today? We’ve being doing some powerful work lately and this year is just getting started. I believe that in order to achieve those big dreams we envision, to reach global sustainability within our lifetime,...
But hey, it’s not what you think! Far from a Plath/Dickinson/Black Sabbath kink, Morgan Moran literally apprenticed at a funeral home for 1 year to learn more about life through death. Yes, she did all the things there. “If you know me, which you don’t, BUT IF YOU DID, you’d know I have a lot...
We interview based on how we work. Here is a post describing what someone can expect when they apply with Flagrant. There is a juicy sweet-spot between soulless corporate coding and writing software for hipster apps. Flagrant is a lifestyle career – you’ll do work that matters...