foundations
- Decision memos that prevent circular debates
A lightweight memo format that clarifies the call, exposes trade-offs, and speeds up execution.
- The Skills Required to Truly Learn
A reflective essay on learning as disciplined endurance of uncertainty, revision, and silence.
- What SICP Really Teaches About Abstraction—and Why It Still Matters
Argues that SICP’s core lesson is the disciplined separation of meaning from mechanism, a prerequisite for reliable and scalable system design.
- Publish fast, iterate later
How to publish faster without losing quality: scope, guardrails, and a minimal checklist.
- Cut the excess
A quick editing pass to make any post shorter and clearer.
- Leading with trade-offs
A repeatable way to expose options, trade-offs, and a clear call in small teams.
- 1:1s that don't become status meetings
A simple structure to keep 1:1s focused on people, not project status.
- 2025 Retrospective: less, better, and consistent
Three practical lessons that made the year more sustainable and effective.