Simplicity Takes Work
Why simple systems are not born but constructed, and how most complexity is not a technical failure but a cognitive one.
Systems
Testing Makes You Faster (Eventually)
Speed without safety feels fast right up until it isn’t - and the bill always comes due later.
When Fear Becomes Structure
An exploration of how unmanaged uncertainty turns into rigid process—and how leadership failure makes that transformation inevitable.
Observability Makes Software Visible
Most systems aren’t truly managed; they are merely monitored for failure while we fly with the windows blacked out. True observability isn’t just about logs and traces—it’s the instrumentation that turns an open-loop guess into a closed-loop system you can actually control.
From Code to Systems: The Three Levels of Thinking That Define Technical Growth
Why many architectural debates fail before they start — not because of disagreement, but because participants are reasoning at different conceptual levels without realizing it.