engineering culture
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Build for Today or Don’t Build at All
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4 min read
Designing for a million users when you have ten isn’t strategy; it’s vanity. We hide fear behind “best practices” like microservices and complex abstractions, paying a tax on velocity for problems we don’t have yet. Stop hedging your bets. If you build the perfect architecture for a product that never launches, you’ve just future-proofed a…
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The Trap of the Hero
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6 min read
I saved the biggest demo in our company’s history at 3:00 AM the night before the meeting. I felt like a god. I thought I was the glue holding the business together. It took me five years to realize the truth: I wasn’t the glue. I was the bottleneck. We need to talk about the…
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When the hard part was the point
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6 min read
I spent three days on that function. I remember the frustration. I remember the panic. But mostly, I remember the moment the logic finally clicked. Last week, an AI did the same work in four seconds, and instead of feeling efficient, I felt hollow. We talk a lot about velocity, but we aren’t talking about…