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
Jan 5, 2010Archive

Will Google replace Apple after Steve jobs is gone?

The past few years haven't been the best for the legend Steve Jobs. He has been fighting pancreatic cancer and due to the cancer he has taken some time off…

Dec 31, 2009Archive

Favorite Tweets from December 2009

12/31/09 @RichardShepherd: Well my code validates. It's not my fault if yours doesn't... @jamis: unsettling thought: "bread is alive until you cook it". baking is murder! 12/30/09 @imrogb: I guess…

Dec 20, 2009Archive

Sharing my inspiration

Over the years I have collected some artwork and websites that I find inspirational and before these items were only on my computer. This was fine for the first 50-100…

Dec 20, 2009Archive

New Posterous medium blog

I have a very busy schedule working two full time jobs but I want to be able to share my thoughts and experience when ever possible. I know many people…

Dec 6, 2009Archive

Tools to run a business with the cloud

This past year I have been getting busier and the amount of work that I have, has more then doubled. I needed to come up with a solution that would…

Nov 17, 2009Archive

Technology for Education

One of my passions is to bring technology to the class room, giving each student the same opportunity to succeed. After I posted my article on 100 Different Evernote Uses…

Nov 17, 2009Archive

Free time to Surf the web

I've been thinking a lot lately about how I and many others like myself don't get to play around and simply surf the web like we want or need. So…

Nov 5, 2009Archive

Augmented Reality – Where do you think it will be used?

I love helping people in anyway that I can and recently I have signed up to use a service called Aarvark . Here is a description of Aardvark directly form…

Nov 4, 2009Archive

Do you post to Twitter where ever you are?

A few months ago in when I first started to get into Twitter and I started to notice that some people post almost a steady stream of tweets all day.…

Nov 4, 2009Archive

Windows 7 Backup Success

Last night at about 10pm I was finally able to make my first successful backup using Window 7's built in backup software. After over two months and dozens of different…