The Blog

Conway's Law is not a rule you break — it is a mirror. Your architecture is a fossil of an org chart that no longer exists, and the real bill it hands you is not ugly code but the cost of coordination.

When everyone acts with perfect individual rationality, the shared pasture dies and every cow starves. Here is why the Tragedy of the Commons is hiding inside your cloud bill, your dependency tree, and your codebase—and what governance can actually do about it.

Ditching your monitors to fix distraction is like curing hunger by cutting off legs. A rant about cognitive offloading, digital hygiene, and why fixing Problem A with a solution for Problem B is the industry's favourite disease.

Writing about tech catastrophes is like eating salty chips: bad for your blood pressure, but impossible to stop. Here is the painful, swampy truth behind the making of Volume 2.

Professional deformation is the cognitive bias where we view the universe through the narrow keyhole of our expertise. Here is why banging on a complex system with only one tool usually just breaks the delicate gears holding it together.

The fundamental flaw in our design of societies, economies, and organizations is a simple, mathematical misunderstanding: we confuse stability with optimality.

Companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars searching for mythical 10x engineers, only to force them to work in a 0.1x environment. Why you don't need more heroes, but fewer roadblocks.

We keep running modern life on expired science. The scary part is not that the old theories were wrong; it is how many of their descendants are still in circulation.

Agentic AI is becoming the new Cloud. And we are repeating the exact same lazy, expensive mistakes.

Every optimization creates a new blind spot. It's the unspoken tax of systemic design — and it's been killing projects, supply chains, and occasionally, entire populations.