Essays
Essays on engineering, personal systems, resilience, work and organisations.
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The dashboard is not the work
7 min readWhy visible developer activity is a poor substitute for engineering value and system health.
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Don't steal people's failure
7 min readWhy recoverable failure is essential for developing judgement, capability, and resilient teams.
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Hidden costs of ownership
10 min readThe obligations, friction, and opportunity costs hidden behind acquiring and keeping things.
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Design the conditions
11 min readHow our surroundings, defaults, and tools quietly shape the way we think, work, and behave.
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Personal systems are production systems
5 min readApplying production engineering principles to the systems that support everyday life.
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Engineer for Durability
6 min readWhy sustained success depends less on peak performance than on capacity, recovery, and staying in the game.