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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Aug 22, 2010Archive

The Power Of Buzz

I wonder if more people are going to check out Buzz today because of the little post by @laporte@gmail.com. Today Buzz is actually really showing it's power in two ways.…

Aug 22, 2010Archive

People Are Not Having Fun With Social Media Anymore

I am pretty bummed today. It seems that people are trying to get more out of social media then a fun tool to interact with. It seems like they are…

Aug 19, 2010Archive

Intel Buys McAfee for $7.68 Billion

This morning Intel announced that they will be buying McAfee anti-virus software for $7.68 billion. This may be a lot of money, but I believe that this is a great…

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…

Aug 16, 2010Archive

Evernote Releases Server Maintenance Page

July 21st, 2010 Evernote released a new section on their website dedicated to their server maintenance . When I saw this it made me very happy, not just because it…

Aug 12, 2010Archive

Problems With The Android Marketplace

Last week I bought my first Android cell phone, the Samsung Captivate. The first thing I did when I got the phone was check out the Android Marketplace (this is…

Aug 5, 2010Archive

Bend The New Text Editor From Microsoft

Microsoft recently created a new text editor called Bend . This may sound of little importance but take a look at some of these screen shots, the thing looks pretty…

Aug 5, 2010Archive

The Wave Is Dead

Yesterday Google announced that one of their social platforms, Google Wave, will be shut down . Google Wave was a great product in terms of being on the cutting edge…

Jul 23, 2010Archive

Better Access To The Evernote Trunk on Mobile Phones, iPad and Netbooks

Recently Evernote came out with a great feature called the "Trunk". This feature is basically an app store for Evernote. Well if you have an iPad, mobile phone, netbook or…

Jul 8, 2010Archive

Find A Problem On The Web?

This year I have been trying to make a point to participate in making the web a better place. I know there are a lot of tools and websites out…