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.

Thinking in Public

225 Nodes
Jan 12, 2011Archive

Movie Theater Idea: Streaming Video for Lines

Have you ever had to go to the DMV and before you left, you checked out your local DMV location via the streaming video online and as soon as the…

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 10, 2011Archive

Google Form Idea: Pay Per Feature and Pay Per Service

Time to fill out a form! I love the simplicity of Google Forms. It allows me to quickly create an online form with the features I want, for Free. This…

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…

Jan 5, 2011Archive

Requested Features for Google Picasa Web

Do you like photos? So do I. Over the past year I have really started to use Picasa Web more often and I would like to use it even more,…

Jan 4, 2011Archive

Website Update: Updated Categories

This is one of a regular series of posts on website updates and maintenance. This week I worked on the web site layout. This past weekend I did a complete…

Dec 31, 2010Archive

20 Predictions for 2011

Google Buzz will be updated and will be will integrated into more services (Google Reader, Doc's, YouTube) Apple will release iPad 2 and it will have a camera, a faster…

Dec 31, 2010Archive

My First Guest Post

One of my goals for my first year of blogging was to be a guest post on another website or blog. Well my goal has now been complete. Please check…

Dec 28, 2010Archive

My Response To Jeff Jarvis Regarding Google Buzz

I spent some quality time yesterday doing research and providing real facts for Jeff Jarvis about Google Buzz and I wanted to share that information with others in case you…