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Product Engineering

In this collection, I write about how engineering decisions change when software exists inside a business, where incentives, tradeoffs, and pragmatism shape what gets built.

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Essays

Jan
03

Product Engineering & Pragmatism

2 min read
Nov
17

Keeping Patterns Consistent: Guardrails and Culture

3 min read
Oct
31

When Leadership Fails, Ecosystems Shrink

2 min read
Oct
02

Platform Engineering: Easy to Use, Hard to Mess Up

4 min read

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