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aliases: ["Podcast recording — 2024-06-06"]
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Date: "2024-06-06"
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# Podcast recording — 2024-06-06
Recorded episode with James Murphy. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: follow-up session with James on engineering team rituals — deep dive into design reviews, RFC processes, and blameless postmortems
- This second recording picks up where the previous episode left off, focusing specifically on the written communication practices that make remote engineering orgs function at a high level
- James brought concrete examples of RFC templates and design doc formats his team uses, along with metrics on how many RFCs lead to actual implementation versus getting abandoned
- Great chemistry again — the rapport from the first session carried over and we were able to go deeper on controversial topics like whether code reviews are worth the time investment at scale
- Standout quote: "An RFC that nobody comments on is worse than an RFC that gets rejected. Silence means nobody cares, and that is the real organizational failure"
- Audio quality consistent with the previous session; clean and professional on both ends

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send James the final cut of part one before publishing this follow-up
- [ ] Draft show notes linking both episodes together as a series
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]] — coordinate release timing with the first episode
- [ ] Create social media clips comparing key points from both sessions
