Testing Makes You Faster (Eventually)
Speed without safety feels fast right up until it isn’t - and the bill always comes due later.
Change
The Degrees of Freedom of a System --- and Why Too Much Freedom Can Paralyze It
A way to think about flexibility as a structural property rather than a personality trait, and why systems lose their ability to change long before anyone notices.
When Fear Becomes Structure
An exploration of how unmanaged uncertainty turns into rigid process—and how leadership failure makes that transformation inevitable.
Visibility Is Not Neutral
Visibility is rarely a neutral act; it is a force that reshapes the work it seeks to measure. This essay explores how management pressure moves downstream and why ‘apparent progress’ can eventually start to dictate reality.
Architecture Should Grow, Not Mutate
How irreversible decisions quietly accumulate, why “refactoring the whole thing” is rarely possible, and what it means for architecture to gain mass over time.