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New blog post: Reorgs happen—how to navigate reorgs and make the most of them.

  • 25 reorgs and 13 managers over 13 years at GitHub, framed as baseline operating conditions rather than crises
  • Practical advice: let the dust settle, ask the questions that matter, re-onboard yourself, reset with your new manager, keep showing your work
  • The upside: reorgs reset narratives, open scope negotiations, garbage-collect legacy work, and compound your network
  • Lighthearted nods to the over-engineered reorg-forecasting side project ("Generated with 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations… Because why not.")
  • Cross-links to the brag doc, one-on-one playbook, go near/go far, leaders show their work, and why URLs

Renames the spike file from 2026-05-19 to 2026-06-07 (publish date / URL change).

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  • npm run build passes; page renders at /2026/06/07/reorgs-happen/ with footnotes rendering as GFM footnotes
  • remark + script/fix-lint run clean (remaining warnings are spell-check noise on stats jargon and permalink-style internal links, same as existing posts)

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benbalter and others added 2 commits May 25, 2026 21:28
Expand the spike into a full post: why reorgs happen, how to navigate
them, and how to make the most of them. Move publish date to 2026-06-07.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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benbalter and others added 3 commits June 7, 2026 22:48
Convert the first bulleted list to prose (three back-to-back bolded
lists read templated), flatten a couple of balanced-contrast landings,
and cut the repeated "here's the:"/"So" setups.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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