Each year Apollo organizes the GraphQL Summit to pull like-minded professionals together to explore, celebrate and learn about GraphQL. John Masse had the opportunity to speak at this year's conference to share his lessons learned as an early adopter of GraphQL. In this episode of the Pragmatic Lead podcast, Alex and John discuss GraphQL as a transformational technology while re-reviewing the early adopter talk.

We are drawn to patterns and recipes to help us solve problems in our work, but in reality, what works for one case does not always work for another. Many times when leaders apply their recipes to new environments, unexpected consequences emerge. Humans habitually leverage patterns almost exclusively, blinding us by our own intellectual biases.

Developing a mindset that welcomes complexity science into our minds will unlock our ability to apply leadership skills to many types of situations. We believe there is something here to uncover.

Dave Snowden, Founder of Cognitive Edge and inventor of the Cynefin Framework, joins us to discuss complexity and human nature. In this episode, we still explore the high-level nuances of complexity thinking and some of the language around Cynefin and Complexity. By the end of this episode, we hope you find enough value to explore Cynefin and Complexity Science independently.

A leader's framework for decision making.

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In episode 11 of the Pragmatic Lead Podcast, Alexander Omeyer, CEO and Co-Founder of StepSize, joins us to dive deep into the meaning of technical debt and argue the nuances of what it takes to manage technical debt well. Are we filing for bankruptcy each time we rewrite an application? Is it really considered debt if we are spending time reshaping the code to accurately represent the business domain we are creating for?

Measure and prioritize technical debt with StepSize.

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