# except (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover except. Page: Feed: --- ## [The HERO](https://unlikelymartha.substack.com/p/the-hero) _2026-08-17 · Mimi · Mimi’s Substack_ an ode to the sandwich generation ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/117111900597851778) _2026-08-17 · thisisaaronland_ "Many, if not most, of the organizations that choose to take on the task \[of managing geospatial data at the scale of the entire planet\] are commercial in nature and pesky little things like “the past” are typically understood as a burden. And it’s true: Most people aren’t looking for things in the past (often because they don’t know it’s possible but that’s a question for another day)." –… ## [Most of What You Do as a Leader Is About Managing Your Own Discomfort](https://dougnoll.substack.com/p/most-of-what-you-do-as-a-leader-is) _2026-08-17 · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA_ The leadership behaviors that feel like care are often something else entirely. Here is the neuroscience of what is happening underneath. ## [What Happens When the Hunger Gets Fed](https://dougnoll.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-the-hunger-gets) _2026-08-13 · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA_ What genuine listening gives the listener. It is not what anyone told me to expect. ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/117085375481309962) _2026-08-13 · thisisaaronland_ I have a commute these days which really has nothing to recommend it / except time to wonder what future historians will think of our age / when the only thing left of us are vanity license plates ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/117077661477142608) _2026-08-11 · thisisaaronland_ RE: https:// orthis.social/@orthat/11707723 3545657702 I know that you are not supposed to apologize for the hustle / but I am allergic or at least uncomfortable with the hustle / however this feels like as good a time as any to mention we made jackets of this drawing / the jackets are limited runs and on the pricey side / but also priced to pay for the next run of (different) jackets – https://… ## [The Leadership Operating System Nobody Taught You About](https://dougnoll.substack.com/p/the-leadership-operating-system-nobody) _2026-08-10 · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA_ Every framework you have ever learned gets installed on top of it. That is why the training never quite sticks. ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/117050228639597521) _2026-08-06 · thisisaaronland_ 2006 called / and would like you to hold its beer – https:// flickr.com/photos/straup/28059 4649 ## [What the Most Defended Human Beings on Earth Taught Me About the Most Universal Human Need](https://dougnoll.substack.com/p/what-the-most-defended-human-beings) _2026-08-06 · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA_ If the hunger is real here, the argument that it does not exist in your boardroom is not credible. ## [Radical Candor Works Perfectly. Except When It Matters Most.](https://dougnoll.substack.com/p/radical-candor-works-perfectly-except) _2026-08-03 · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA_ The 45-second neurological event that blocks every word of feedback from landing. ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/si87RXdvCETm) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/117023449981885558) _2026-08-02 · thisisaaronland_ waiting / for noodles ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/117021240676867672) _2026-08-01 · thisisaaronland_ the fingerprint application has been blessed as version "1.0.0" / on the grounds that I've been using it unaltered for a couple of years now / so I made a bunch of under-the-hood tweaks / like removing the jquery dependencies and updating deprecated svg methods – https:// github.com/aaronland/fingerpri nt/releases/tag/v1.0.0 ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/117011234448303431) _2026-07-30 · thisisaaronland_ I could not tell you / why it took me so long to do this – https://www. aaronland.info/weblog/2024/10/ 26/exuding/#mcn24-019 ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/117010156473073034) _2026-07-30 · thisisaaronland_ I have a commute these days which really has nothing to recommend it / except lots of time to wonder whether the so-called california ideology / is a by-product of the state’s unwillingness to countenance a passing lane in its highway code / or vice versa ## [That's The First Time You Have Listened To Me In 20 Years](https://dougnoll.substack.com/p/thats-the-first-time-you-have-listened) _2026-07-30 · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA_ What happened in a conference room in 2005 that changed everything I thought I knew about conflict, connection, and what human beings are actually reaching for. ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/117004254885038420) _2026-07-29 · thisisaaronland_ work / in progress ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116994998159418609) _2026-07-28 · thisisaaronland_ when in doubt / make it glow in the dark ## [The Crucial Conversations Technique That Works Perfectly — Except in High-Conflict Situations](https://dougnoll.substack.com/p/the-crucial-conversations-technique) _2026-07-27 · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA_ The neuroscience is unambiguous. Here is what sixty years of training got wrong, and the two-word replacement that works. ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116976614919888831) _2026-07-24 · thisisaaronland_ work / in progress ## [Nobody Is Listening. Including You. Including Me.](https://dougnoll.substack.com/p/nobody-is-listening-including-you) _2026-07-23 · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA_ Why the most important skill in human life is the one nobody taught us — and what it is costing us every single day. ## [World's cheapest GPUs, deployed fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FmqE9F0xrWlg) _2026-07-23 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy a live GPU-backed API in minutes for under $10 ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116965796896416860) _2026-07-22 · thisisaaronland_ what is better than two cats playing roller derby / three cats ## [Boris Cherny's AI Maturity Model Is Smart. It's Also Incomplete.](https://outofowls.com/blog/boris-chernys-ai-maturity-model-is-smart-its-also-incomplete) _2026-07-22 · randy silver · Blog - Out of Owls_ Over the weekend, Boris Cherny - the head of Claude Code at Anthropic - released a maturity model for AI adoption . He’s a smart guy, and it’s hugely valuable. There’s 5 steps: Step 0: Gated , just dipping your toes in Step 1: Assisted , augmenting the work you’re doing without significantly adapting your processes or delegating any work to agents Step 2: Parallel , delegating a huge amount of… ## [Stephen Covey's Habit 5, Empathic Listening, Was Brilliant, Except....](https://dougnoll.substack.com/p/stephen-coveys-habit-5-empathic-listening) _2026-07-20 · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA_ What Habit 5 was pointing at — and what the neuroscience that arrived eighteen years later finally named. ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116933017361458301) _2026-07-17 · thisisaaronland_ here are some pictures / of pixelated cats – https:// aaronland.info/orthis/tags/pix elneko/ ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116930773392491543) _2026-07-16 · thisisaaronland_ I have a commute these days which really has nothing to recommend it / except sometimes the chance to see / the graceful banking and turning of eastbound flights / forced to take off from an alternate runway ## [He Passed Every Reference Check](https://dougnoll.substack.com/p/he-passed-every-reference-check) _2026-07-16 · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA · Douglas E Noll, JD, MA_ The most expensive executive hiring mistake is not the one the reference check misses. It is the one it cannot see. ## [The 401 is the map: three OAuth primitives in my private MCP servers](https://prashamhtrivedi.in/mcp-oauth-primitives/) _2026-07-16 · Prasham H Trivedi_ MCP OAuth looks like alphabet soup until you watch one client actually connect. Follow a single connection to my private MCP server, from the first anonymous request to the first authorized tool call, and the whole spec collapses into three primitives that fire exactly once, in order. Plus the three hacks the current libraries forced on me, which no documentation will warn you about. ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116921530732836458) _2026-07-15 · thisisaaronland_ work / in progress ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116915020832613009) _2026-07-13 · thisisaaronland_ cats playing roller derby / obviously ## [Tools vs Resources vs Prompts: the MCP primitive you're misusing](https://prashamhtrivedi.in/mcp-primitive-youre-misusing/) _2026-07-13 · Prasham H Trivedi_ MCP has three primitives, not one. Most servers cram everything into Tools, then blame the protocol for bloated context. The fix is one question per call: who pulls the trigger, the model, the app, or the user. Get it wrong on read-only data and you have handed the model a decision it should never have been making, and you cannot see the bad ones on a token counter. ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7rq4fBGhdmmD) _2026-07-12 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116908231429650222) _2026-07-12 · thisisaaronland_ "We were in Montréal recently. I made some postcards while we were there." – https://www. aaronland.info/weblog/2026/07/ 12/chocolatine/#yul ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116902341679430912) _2026-07-11 · thisisaaronland_ “…la capacité à tolérer l’autre et tous les inconforts qu’il vous procure, à survivre à la déception, à désirer quelqu’un qui ne sera jamais parfaitement disponible. Ce sont ces manques-là, ces frictions-là, ces ratés-là, qui font les sujets, c’est-à-dire des êtres qui posent un regard critique sur leur assujettissement, des êtres qui pensent, qui désirent, qui souffrent et qui créent.” – https://… ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116896966315179354) _2026-07-10 · thisisaaronland_ so / apparently we need to talk about product placement in museum exhibition texts now ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116884795079811386) _2026-07-08 · thisisaaronland_ in fairness if you don’t follow hockey / this could just as easily be understood as norwegian / either way it has been pointed out that the solution when engaged / is to make the angine de poitrine hand-triangle ## [(untitled)](https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/116881301742833685) _2026-07-07 · thisisaaronland_ everyone in the mission / seems to think the habs jacket / is a swiss national team jacket – https:// aaronland.info/orthis/198/136/ 938/7/ ## [MCP transports, decided](https://prashamhtrivedi.in/mcp-transports-decided/) _2026-07-01 · Prasham H Trivedi_ People burn the better part of a day picking an MCP transport for a question that was already settled by where their server runs. Here is the ten-second rule, the SSE migration you keep putting off, and the one stdio gotcha that looks like a dead server and has nothing to do with your code. ## [No, MCP servers aren't dead (and here's the 2007 reason why)](https://prashamhtrivedi.in/mcp-isnt-dead/) _2026-06-01 · Prasham H Trivedi_ The MCP-is-dead wave is real, and every complaint under it is worth answering. But the death calls measure the wrong axis. The live fight is delivery and update control, and on that axis MCP holds a structural advantage skills and CLIs do not have yet. Part 2 of a series on who controls the update button. ## [Mobile won the platform war on distribution, not capability](https://prashamhtrivedi.in/mobile-lost-on-distribution/) _2026-05-20 · Prasham H Trivedi_ The narrative says mobile won the platform war and the web lost. For most of the 2010s that was simply correct. The lens that emerged later is the load-bearing one: mobile won on distribution and store lock-in, not on capability, and the deciding axis the whole time was update friction. A platform-war retrospective from someone who shipped Android apps for a decade. ## [Culture ate strategy. AI is devouring the 2-pizza team. Now what?](https://outofowls.com/blog/2-pizzas) _2026-05-01 · randy silver · Blog - Out of Owls_ AI tools are changing everything about how Products are developed, companies are run, and how we work together . Except for what it’s not changing at all - the underlying philosophy of Product thinking. I’ve been having a ton of great conversations with people on the front lines over the past few weeks. Things are changing way too quickly for there to be any answers, but we’re starting to ask the… ## [AI Just Broke Your Strategy. Now What?](https://outofowls.com/blog/ai-just-broke-your-strategy) _2026-03-27 · randy silver · Blog - Out of Owls_ The way that companies work is fundamentally changing. Classic Product Management is based on a very simple idea: Waterfall is bad, because we don’t find out if something has value for a long period of time. Agile is good because it allows us to experiment and learn quickly, because building things is time-consuming and expensive. AI-based tools have fundamentally changed this. We can now build… ## [Laying Low](https://unlikelymartha.substack.com/p/laying-low-487) _2026-02-17 · Mimi · Mimi’s Substack_ easy like sunday morning except on a monday (vol 6 + vol 7) ## ["by AIs"](https://phong.bearblog.dev/by-ais/) _2026-02-15 · phong · Phong's blog_ Most of things will become so effortless, so transient, that people may no longer care about claiming credit for themselves, but simply say “by AIs”. ## [On Again...Off Again | A Different Type of Discipline](https://unlikelymartha.substack.com/p/on-againoff-again-a-different-type) _2026-02-04 · Mimi · Mimi’s Substack_ easy like sunday morning (except on a tuesday) vol. 5 ## [Rage + Resistance](https://unlikelymartha.substack.com/p/rage-resistance) _2026-01-26 · Mimi · Mimi’s Substack_ easy (but not really) like sunday morning vol. 3 ## [Three Commands, Four Documents: The AI Workflow That Actually Ships](https://prashamhtrivedi.in/plan-execute-verify-workflow/) _2026-01-23 · Prasham H Trivedi_ I promised to show you how Plan-Execute-Verify actually works. Here’s the three-command workflow that replaced my 13-document nightmare-and why complexity scoring is the gate that keeps everything sane. ## [Good and Busy](https://unlikelymartha.substack.com/p/good-and-busy) _2026-01-19 · Mimi · Mimi’s Substack_ easy like sunday morning vol. 3 ## [A Slow Transition Back into Routine](https://unlikelymartha.substack.com/p/a-slow-transition-back-into-routine) _2026-01-11 · Mimi · Mimi’s Substack_ easy like sunday morning vol. 2 ## [AI Agent Workflow: 13 Documents for a Label Change](https://prashamhtrivedi.in/how-not-to-arrange-ai-workflow/) _2026-01-10 · Prasham H Trivedi_ I spent $10 and generated 13 documents to change a label. Here’s the brilliant workflow that got me there-and why you should absolutely not replicate it. ## [No Sleep (Ōura)](https://unlikelymartha.substack.com/p/no-sleep-oura) _2026-01-08 · Mimi · Mimi’s Substack_ an ōura ring perimenopause insomnia inspired rant ## [First Happenings of 2026](https://unlikelymartha.substack.com/p/first-happenings-of-2026) _2026-01-04 · Mimi · Mimi’s Substack_ easy like sunday morning vol. 1