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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Feb 22, 2011Archive

Email Newsletters, Do They Really Matter?

For the past few weeks I have been working on Email Newsletters and it got me thinking, do Email newsletters as they currently exist even matter? Many people will answer…

Feb 17, 2011Archive

Where Apple Fails, Google Succeeds

After I wrote yesterdays post regarding Apple's new subscription model for iOS, Google release their own more powerful subscription model (for everything) called Google One Pass . What is Google…

Feb 16, 2011Archive

Has Apple Gone Too Far With The New iOS Subscription Model?

Yesterday Apple announced a new feature for iOS which allowed apps to setup a subscription payment method . At first this sounds great, it means that news papers can come…

Feb 15, 2011Archive

Why Aren't Websites Optimized for Larger Displays?

After writing the post Why Google TV Will Help Websites For People With Disabilities I realized that Google and many companies aren't optimizing their websites for larger displays, but they…

Feb 1, 2011Archive

Viewing Museums from the Comfort of your Home - Google Bringing Museums to Us

Today is a big step forward for art lovers around the world. Google as teamed up with some of the most famous art museums around the world and has combined…

Jan 26, 2011Archive

When Technology is Killing Communication Skills

Why do people suck at writing emails? Everyday I get emails from companies, clients, friends and even family that are lacking in a lot of basic verbal and writing skills.…

Jan 13, 2011Archive

My First HTML5 Labs Test

A few months ago I wanted to teach myself HTML5 so recently I decided to take a poster and recreate it online using only HTML5 elements. HTML 5 Elements that…

Jan 11, 2011Archive

Reading Content on a Digital Device

Do you read on a digital device? I read in the area of 100 blog and web posts a day. I use the content online as my daily news resource…

Jan 7, 2011Archive

Google Buzz's Holiday Bug and How To Fix It

During the holiday's this year users started to see posts show up in their inbox stating that the post has been updated, once the user opened the Buzz post there…

Jan 6, 2011Archive

My Wishlist for Google Buzz in 2011

Google Buzz has come a long way since it was introduced last February and even though it has come a long way there are still some additional features that I…