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# Podcast recording — 2025-02-13
Recorded episode with Anna Lindberg. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: sustainable engineering practices — how to build software organizations that do not burn people out while still shipping at a competitive pace
- Anna drew on her experience leading engineering at a Nordic SaaS company known for its work-life balance culture, sharing how they maintained high shipping velocity with a strict 35-hour work week and no on-call outside business hours
- Her perspective challenged the Silicon Valley assumption that intensity equals output — she presented convincing data showing that her team's deployment frequency and incident rates were comparable to companies with much more demanding cultures
- Refreshing and important conversation; Anna is calm, data-driven, and persuasive without being preachy about the Nordic model
- Key quote: "Sustainable pace is not a luxury. It is a competitive advantage. The teams that ship the fastest over a five-year period are never the ones working 60-hour weeks"
- Very clean audio; Anna recorded from a professional studio in Stockholm

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Anna
- [ ] Draft show notes with the team health metrics dashboard she described
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
- [ ] Create social media clips — the 35-hour work week with competitive metrics angle will generate significant engagement
