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.

account_tree

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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Oct 26, 2010Archive

Links of the Week 11-9-09 to 11-16-09

Here is a blog post that I wrote almost a year ago today, but never published. Instead of letting this information sit on my server I decided to share it…

Oct 25, 2010Archive

Using Robots And Technology For People With Special Needs

Going over my Google Reader I found the article " Five Therapy Robots Helping With Alzheimer’s, Autism & Cancer " on Geek Beat TV and when I read the article…

Oct 24, 2010Archive

Added Better Page Navigation

Continuing with the goal of making my personal website easier to use, I have changed my page navigation from "Previous Post" and "Next Post" to displaying page numbers. Now you…

Oct 22, 2010Archive

Why Google TV Will Help Websites For People With Disabilities

One of the things that I'm passionate about is trying to make websites for everyone. Not just the majority of us that can see , hear , and touch just…

Oct 21, 2010Archive

My Review Of GetGlue.com

A few months ago, I stumbled acrossed the service getglue.com . At first I thought that the service was overwhelming and that I would never use it, well a few…

Oct 14, 2010Archive

Evernote: The Best Bookmarking Service

Evernote released a new feature in June for their Google Chrome extension, where they show you all of the notes that you have clipped on a website. At first this…

Oct 14, 2010Archive

Google Buzz Idea: Happy Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Ok, so it isn't anyone's birthday but I thought that it would be great if Google Buzz sent out a post on your behalf to all of your…

Oct 14, 2010Archive

Google Chrome Cleans Up Their UI Even More

This feature came out a while ago but I wanted to make sure that others knew about it, Google Chrome has combined their two drop downs into 1(one), giving users…

Oct 10, 2010Archive

Google Chrome Idea: Auto Refresh Tabbed Pages

As a web developer I use many Google tools throughout the day, but hands down I use Google Chrome the most. I have Google Chrome installed on every computer in…

Sep 30, 2010Archive

Google Buzz Idea: Cleaned Up User Interface

I have already written about Google Buzz a lot so I will keep this post simple and just create a easy to read list. (Note, many of these ideas already…