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.

Thinking in Public

225 Nodes
Mar 15, 2018Archive

Note Driven Development (NDD)

Note Driven Development (NDD for short) is my take on the rubber ducky debugging technique with an added bonus. Before I begin explaining NDD let me describe what rubber ducky…

Jun 6, 2017Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #52

The final one, it's here. Development (article): Chrome headless So-long Phantom.js and welcome a new standards way of using a headless browser, I hope Edge and Firefox follow suit. Games…

May 29, 2017Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #51

Development (article): npm v5.0.0 Just as I have my team moving to yarn NPM finally releases an update… though it still doesn’t look to solve the major issue of uninstalling/reinstalling…

May 21, 2017Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #50

Linux (article): Ubuntu Desktop Team Discuss Their Plans for GNOME in Ubuntu 17.10 Ubuntu is finally leaving behind their unity desktop and moving to Gnome, learn how they plan to…

May 12, 2017Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #49

Funny (video): Chris Pratt Plays 'Speak Out’ I watched this video this morning and it made my jaw hurt and put me in tears. Productivity (article): The Best Way to…

May 5, 2017Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #48

Developer (article): Google Assistant SDK I’ve wanted Google Home to be on my laptop for a while, now this can finally happen! Productivity (article): Do vs. Done Lists: Jot Down…

Apr 29, 2017Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #47

Technology (article): Google Cloud Boss Diane Greene Wants To Be Ahead Of Amazon By 2022 Google is creating and releasing new cloud technology every couple weeks and I think they…

Apr 20, 2017Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #46

Productivity (article): Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do Wunderlist has been around for a long time and it looks like Microsoft is following Apple…

Apr 14, 2017Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #45

Science (article): Evidence of Unknown Human Species Found in DNA of Melanesians For the longest time humans thought that there was only 2 species that evolved together, now it appears…

Apr 8, 2017Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #44

Development (video): ES2018 First Look - it changes everything Dot syntax everywhere! Software (video): New YouTube app UI with pop-up comments Google always experiments and adjusts their UX to be…