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💌 [untitled]
published 13 months ago
💌 2023 in review.
published 20 months ago
💌 2024 in review.
published 7 months ago
💌 Advancing the industry.
published 20 months ago
💌 Systems model of API deprecation
published 3 months ago
💌 How should Stripe deprecate APIs? (~2016)
published 2 months ago
💌 Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy.
published 6 months ago
💌 "We're a product engineering company!" -- Engineering strategy at Calm.
published 5 months ago
💌 Career advice in 2025.
published 4 months ago
💌 What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs?
published 3 weeks ago
💌 Steps to build an engineering strategy.
published 3 months ago
💌 Constraints on giving feedback.
published 15 months ago
💌 Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities
published 20 months ago
💌 Should we decompose our monolith?
published 10 months ago
💌 My desk setup in 2025.
published 4 weeks ago
💌 Diagnosis in engineering strategy.
published 4 months ago
💌 Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty.
published 12 months ago
💌 Modeling driving onboarding.
published 9 months ago
💌 Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience.
published 9 months ago
💌 Digital release of Engineering Executive's Primer.
published 18 months ago
💌 Eng org seniority-mix model.
published 9 months ago
💌 Ex-technology companies.
published 16 months ago
💌 Executive translation.
published 10 months ago
💌 Exploring for strategy.
published 5 months ago
💌 How to filter out old email from inbox
published 2 months ago
💌 Those five spare hours each week.
published 19 months ago
💌 Friction isn't velocity.
published 17 months ago
💌 High-Context Triad.
published 18 months ago
💌 How to get better at strategy?
published 3 months ago
💌 How to get more headcount.
published 8 months ago
💌 Making images consistent for book.
published 3 months ago
💌 Is engineering strategy useful?
published 5 months ago
💌 Is this strategy any good?
published 3 months ago
💌 Layers of context.
published 19 months ago
💌 Leadership requires taking some risk.
published 17 months ago
💌 Rough notes on learning Wardley Mapping.
published 7 months ago
💌 library-mcp: working with Markdown knowledge bases
published 2 months ago
💌 Script for consistent linking within book.
published 3 months ago
💌 How should you adopt LLMs?
published 14 months ago
💌 Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales
published 15 months ago
💌 Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.
published 7 months ago
💌 Notes on how to use LLMs in your product.
published 16 months ago
💌 More (self-)publishing thoughts.
published 17 months ago
💌 Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional.
published 18 months ago
💌 Navigating ambiguity.
published 19 months ago
💌 No Wrong Doors.
published 14 months ago
💌 Notes on Enterprise Architecture as Strategy
published 20 months ago
💌 Notes on How Big Things Get Done
published 20 months ago
💌 Numbers go up.
published 11 months ago
💌 Operational mechanisms for strategy.
published 3 months ago
💌 Our own agents with their own tools.
published 5 months ago
💌 Physics and perception.
published 13 months ago
💌 Setting policy for strategy.
published 4 months ago
💌 How to integrate Stripe's acquisition of Index? (2018)
published 4 months ago
💌 Posts
published 13 months ago
💌 Predictability.
published 19 months ago
💌 Navigating Private Equity ownership.
published 8 months ago
💌 How to provide feedback on documents.
published 2 months ago
💌 Public company comparables.
published 2 months ago
💌 Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers.
published 8 months ago
💌 How to create software quality.
published 13 months ago
💌 Making engineering strategies more readable
published 14 months ago
💌 How to effectively refine engineering strategy.
published 6 months ago
💌 How to resource Engineering-driven projects at Calm? (2020)
published 3 months ago
💌 Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites
published 2 months ago
💌 Using systems modeling to refine strategy.
published 8 months ago
💌 Why did Stripe build Sorbet? (~2017).
published 2 months ago
💌 Stuff I learned at Carta.
published 6 weeks ago
💌 systems-mcp: generate systems models via LLM
published 2 months ago
💌 Tags
published 13 months ago
💌 Architecture
published 13 months ago
💌 Eng-Strategy-Book
published 14 months ago
💌 Executive
published 13 months ago
💌 Llm
published 13 months ago
💌 Management
published 13 months ago
💌 Speaking
published 13 months ago
💌 Staff-Plus
published 13 months ago
💌 Strategy
published 14 months ago
💌 Systems-Thinking
published 14 months ago
💌 Talks
published 13 months ago
💌 Wardley-Map
published 14 months ago
💌 Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement.
published 10 months ago
💌 Uber's service migration strategy circa 2014.
published 6 months ago
💌 Service onboarding model for Uber (2014).
published 6 months ago
💌 How should we control access to user data?
published 5 months ago
💌 Thesis on value accumulation in AI.
published 18 months ago
💌 Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles.
published 10 months ago
💌 Video of Using LLMs in your product.
published 13 months ago
💌 Wardley mapping the service orchestration ecosystem (2014).
published 3 months ago
💌 Wardley mapping of Gitlab Strategy.
published 6 months ago
💌 Wardley mapping the LLM ecosystem.
published 6 months ago
💌 Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping.
published 6 months ago
💌 What can agents actually do?
published 19 hours ago
💌 When to write strategy, and how much?
published 11 months ago
💌 Who gets to do strategy?
published 4 months ago
💌 Writers who operate.
published 20 months ago