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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Mar 18, 2010Archive

Social Media Anxiety

With the rise of social media and live content comes to the rise of what I like to call "Social Media Anxiety". I personally read blogs, websites and Twitter each…

Feb 13, 2010Archive

It’s amazing what you can do with limited letters at Old Navy

See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Andrew's posterous

Feb 10, 2010Archive

Is Google Buzz The Next Social Media Power House?

This past Tuesday Google released their anticipated new social media platform called " Google Buzz ". Google Buzz takes the best from Facebook , Twitter and other social media sites…

Jan 21, 2010Archive

The automated restroom?

I personally love automated items which make our lives easier, especially ones that help with hygiene. So this got me to thinking, over the past couple of years we are…

Jan 16, 2010Archive

Logmein.com in Google Chrome

I am trying out Logmein.com inside of Google Chrome and so far it is pretty nice, the quality is what you would expect from Logmein.com. The upside to logmein.com in…

Jan 14, 2010Archive

My thoughts on this Conan O’Brien NBC issue

Over the past couple of weeks many have been talking about the change that is happening on NBC's late night lineup. I personally think it is pretty low what NBC…

Jan 5, 2010Archive

Will Google replace Apple after Steve jobs is gone?

The past few years haven't been the best for the legend Steve Jobs. He has been fighting pancreatic cancer and due to the cancer he has taken some time off…

Dec 20, 2009Archive

New Posterous medium blog

I have a very busy schedule working two full time jobs but I want to be able to share my thoughts and experience when ever possible. I know many people…

Dec 6, 2009Archive

Tools to run a business with the cloud

This past year I have been getting busier and the amount of work that I have, has more then doubled. I needed to come up with a solution that would…

Nov 17, 2009Archive

Free time to Surf the web

I've been thinking a lot lately about how I and many others like myself don't get to play around and simply surf the web like we want or need. So…