Elided Branches

Several years ago, I published a critique of manager READMEs that succeeded in stirring up a lot of feelings, pro and con. I’d like to beli...

I’m working on a talk about rewriting platforms for LDX3 later this month. Spoiler alert: a lot of the talk centers around why rewriting pl...

 On March 26, 2015, I posted a short blog post to the Rent the Runway engineering blog, Sharing Our Engineering Ladder , with a quick intro ...

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an en...

Adding product management to more traditional software infrastructure organizations, sometimes with a shift towards platform engineering, is...

Software engineers are attracted to formulas, algorithms, and structures. As people whose job it is to take ideas and turn them into predict...

 Most companies have carefully created separate senior career tracks that provide details of the differences between being a manager and bei...