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Only outcomes survive
Code is an outcome. So is a migrated system or a resolved incident. The reasoning that produced them is the part that goes missing.
Thinking
Notes on how I think, not a blog archive.
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Engineering principles
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- leadership
Mentoring does not scale, and that is the point
The advice for growing engineers is usually to systematise it. Most of what has actually worked for me does not survive being turned into a programme.
- lessonsplatform engineering
Learning a stack by shipping with it
Java, then enterprise banking, then cloud, then platform engineering, now AI platforms. I have never once learned one of these before needing it.