"… and me and Carl were quietly trying to weigh up which team …" "Me and Carl had a winner and …" "During the excercise me and a colleague, Carl, made ourselves available …"
>and thinked the way most of the team already worked and thought
Yes, that sentence in the first paragraph stood out to me too, but I really didn't expect for the article to gain traction.
I want to add that I can't suit everyone, there are things that annoy me about American English grammar that I can't change, and I wouldn't think about writing in the comments suggestions on how to fix it. Maybe that's just me.