PHILOSOPHY & ESSAYS

Perspectives & Essays

Reflections on software engineering, complexity management, tech career paths, and technical debt narratives.

Perspectives Oct 10, 2026

Meeting minutes: why direction is so important

Why meeting minutes are not administrative bureaucracy, but architectural steering wheels. A guide to alignment, accountability, and avoiding organizational drift.

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Perspectives Aug 23, 2026

The key to disaster: tons of meetings, tons of attendees

An exploration of corporate meeting culture, the hidden costs of massive attendee lists, and how to reclaim engineering productivity through effective collaboration.

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Perspectives Aug 8, 2026

The heavy difference between fancy and useful: a CLI case

An analysis of the contrast between bloated, over-engineered graphical systems and the wittily simple power of Command Line Interface tools.

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