Code stopped being the constraint. So did capacity. What's left is whether you can ask the right question. Muscle memory isn't in the muscle. We don't often think of it that way, but at its core, muscle memory is mental. It's new
The word “we” is powerful, and it’s dangerous. We the people. We hold these truths to be self-evident. Foundational, uniting language. The trouble is that “we” doesn’t work with responsibility. When “we” is responsible, no one is. We have built, for ourselves and others, a mountain of
Getting to the root of a problem always requires going past the surface, and finding the underlying cause. It's the difference between the symptoms exhibited, and the real diagnosis. I was dealing with an escalation on a project once where the "problems" were described as quality
Never spend more time arguing over who should do the work than it would take to do the work. For the last few years my signature line in my email has been "The best measure of progress is working software." I had a few motivations for adding that
The equation of disruption has changed. Every previous era was linear. This one compounds. We are at an inflection point. In the industry, in our world, and personally. I've spent twelve years leading engineering organizations through every flavor of digital transformation, and I've made a career
There's real power in subtraction. It's a theme that I've applied throughout my career. As a developer, I often (half) joked that my favorite key on the keyboard was "delete". Removing complexity is liberating. The first time I read Greg McKeown'