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
Feb 4, 2010Archive

Google Dropping Support for Internet Explorer 6

This past Friday, January 29th, Google announced that they will drop support for Internet Explorer 6(IE6) in two additional Google products; Google Sites and Google Docs. On Google Docs' official…

Jan 28, 2010Archive

How to turn your iPad into a powerful computer on the go

Right now many people are complaining that the iPad is just a large iPod touch and that it does little more then the iPod. However after taking a look at…

Jan 24, 2010Archive

Treat your website like a magazine

Recently Paul Boag of Boag World aired a show which discussed how designing a web site should be more like designing a poster. Designing a web site like a poster…

Jan 22, 2010Archive

How to find items in Evernote created on a certain date

Almost everyday I try to find new ways to improve my organizational skills, and this has never been apparent as it is now with the use of tools like Evernote…

Jan 21, 2010Archive

The automated restroom?

I personally love automated items which make our lives easier, especially ones that help with hygiene. So this got me to thinking, over the past couple of years we are…

Jan 18, 2010Archive

New website design for Eve-Online contest

I don't get to do much website design lately but here is my most recent design that I finished this morning. Next step is to code this site. Posted via…

Jan 17, 2010Archive

Pros and Cons of switching to Google Chrome from Firefox

Last month I decided to give Google Chrome a try as my main browser, I wanted to see if the new browser had the tools and options I needed for…

Jan 16, 2010Archive

Logmein.com in Google Chrome

I am trying out Logmein.com inside of Google Chrome and so far it is pretty nice, the quality is what you would expect from Logmein.com. The upside to logmein.com in…

Jan 14, 2010Archive

Web developer tools for Google Chrome

It has been nearly a month since I started to use Google Chrome as my main browser, and the more I use it, the more I love it. During this…

Jan 14, 2010Archive

My thoughts on this Conan O’Brien NBC issue

Over the past couple of weeks many have been talking about the change that is happening on NBC's late night lineup. I personally think it is pretty low what NBC…