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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Sep 26, 2010Archive

Google Reader Idea: Filter Feeds

I follow dozens of different websites through the use of RSS feeds in Google Reader and each day I can read anywhere from 50-600 posts(some posts are 1-2 sentences). I…

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 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…

Jun 3, 2010Archive

Saving Your Receipts For Tax Time, Using Evernote

Since I run my own freelance business from home I have to be very careful with all of my receipts to make sure that I am good when it comes…

May 15, 2010Archive

How I Buzz

I have been asked by a few people how I use Buzz. I created this document so that people can reference and use it to help them with Buzz. Below…

Apr 22, 2010Archive

How To Save Google Buzz Posts To Read Later

If you use Google Buzz right now you will notice that there is no Star feature like there is in Gmail or a way to save a post to read…

Apr 15, 2010Archive

Free Project Planning Software: Wireframes and Flow Diagrams

Over the past few years that I have been doing freelance work I have come across a handful of tools which allow me to create wireframes, flow diagrams and general…

Feb 25, 2010Archive

How to organize clients files on your computer

Over the years I have learned a lot about setting up a design business and I want to share the way that we organize our clients files. I feel that…