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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Dec 20, 2009Archive

Sharing my inspiration

Over the years I have collected some artwork and websites that I find inspirational and before these items were only on my computer. This was fine for the first 50-100…

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

Technology for Education

One of my passions is to bring technology to the class room, giving each student the same opportunity to succeed. After I posted my article on 100 Different Evernote Uses…

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…

Nov 5, 2009Archive

Augmented Reality – Where do you think it will be used?

I love helping people in anyway that I can and recently I have signed up to use a service called Aarvark . Here is a description of Aardvark directly form…

Nov 4, 2009Archive

Do you post to Twitter where ever you are?

A few months ago in when I first started to get into Twitter and I started to notice that some people post almost a steady stream of tweets all day.…

Nov 4, 2009Archive

Windows 7 Backup Success

Last night at about 10pm I was finally able to make my first successful backup using Window 7's built in backup software. After over two months and dozens of different…

Nov 3, 2009Archive

100 Different Evernote Uses

Take a photo of your contacts measurements and save them to your personal notebook. Makes ordering your next pair easier. Take a photo of the page you are reading in…

Nov 3, 2009Archive

Backing up with Windows 7

For the past month or so I have been having troubles backing up my computer using Windows 7's built in backup and restore utility as some of you already know.…

Nov 2, 2009Archive

Sharing my Bookmarks

I use the web everyday as a web developer, usually working at one of my two jobs or posting on twitter. I tend to come across many useful websites which…