Elided Branches

As companies adopt AI tools, a lot of time is spent on thinking about AI policies from a security, compliance, or even cost-focused angle. B...

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...