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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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 29, 2010Archive

Google Buzz Up – Portland, Oregon

I've been talking about Google Buzz now for a few months and now it is time to take it up a notch. I am organizing a Google Buzz meet up…

Jun 19, 2010Archive

New Buzz Post Static Link

One of the goals for the new blog design and layout was to bridge the gap between Google Buzz and this blog. The Problem - My blog posts and Buzz…

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…

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…

May 6, 2010Archive

Problems With Google Buzz Mobile

In response to the positive feedback that I got from my previous article, from both Buzz users and the Google Buzz Team, I decided to explore the mobile version more…

Apr 29, 2010Archive

Problems With Google Buzz

Over the past couple of months I have truly fell in love with Google Buzz, which I am sure you are aware of with my previous articles. That being said…

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 20, 2010Archive

Google Buzz Etiquette

I worked out some basic Buzz Etiquette yesterday. If you have any other suggestions please add it to the comments below. Spammers will be prosecuted to the full extent of…