Writing — 225 essays

Cultivating ideas at the intersection of Engineering and Systems Thinking.

A collection of essays, frameworks, and early-stage thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, and the human side of software.

Systems Map

Core architectural nodes of research.

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Platform Org Design

Scaling engineering teams via structural abstraction.

biotech

Feedback Loops

Entropy management in high-velocity CI/CD environments.

psychology

Human Factors

Cognitive load and its impact on system availability.

architecture

Pragmatic API

Designing interfaces that survive generational shifts.

history

Legacy Refactor

Social strategies for technical debt retirement.

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Aug 19, 2010Archive

Android App Of The Week - Hyper Jump

This week I started to look into games on my Android phone and I came across Hypher Jump Lite. This game has very beautiful graphics and is easy to play,…

Aug 19, 2010Archive

Intel Buys McAfee for $7.68 Billion

This morning Intel announced that they will be buying McAfee anti-virus software for $7.68 billion. This may be a lot of money, but I believe that this is a great…

Aug 16, 2010Archive

New Feature: Connect Buzz Comments

I get a lot of feedback from my blog posts, most of it doesn't come from this website, but rather from Google Buzz. A good friend of mine on Google…

Jul 1, 2010Archive

Getting Focused At Work

Since I started to do freelance full time I have noticed that I can easily get distracted by simple things, like checking social media sites, reading emails, writing emails, switching…

Jul 1, 2010Archive

Starting My First Book: The Evernote Book

Last week I sat down and started to look over websites dedicated to Evernote and realized that my article " 100 different Evernote Uses " is still very popular compared…

Jun 23, 2010Archive

Hippo Remote Profile - Totem Movie Player

A few weeks ago I built a media center PC using Ubuntu 10.04, an old PC and some free open source software. I was able to turn the old pc…

Jun 19, 2010Archive

New Buzz Post Static Link

One of the goals for the new blog design and layout was to bridge the gap between Google Buzz and this blog. The Problem - My blog posts and Buzz…

Jun 19, 2010Archive

Updating My Blog With A New Design And Features

I don't know how many of you read my blog, but I am slowly updating the design and layout to add features that will make the site more user friendly.…

Jun 10, 2010Archive

Communication: A Must For Any Website

Being a web developer I use many websites on a daily basis, some for my social needs like Google Buzz, Twitter, Facebook and even Youtube and others for News, like…

Mar 19, 2010Archive

Is Google Helping All Users? Or Hurting The One’s Who Use Their Tools For Good?

Reading the article " Rely heavily on Google Analytics? You won’t like this. " got me to really think. I understand that Google is trying to do the right thing…