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2026

A Simple Manager’s Equationoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2026
When AI Does the Work, Who Is Accountable?original ↗
3 Jun 2026
The Bottleneck is Not Where You Thinkoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2026
A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: Monarch’s Philosophy on AI in Devoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026
Monarch’s Engineering Valuesoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026

2025

Plenty Enoughoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2025
AInxiety — AI is Awesome but It’s Fucking Exhaustingoriginal ↗
19 May 2025

2024

Mindless Products vs. Mindful Productsoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2024

2023

Writing an LLM Agent in 50 Lines of Code (or no Code at All)original ↗
7 Apr 2023
What Managers Can Learn From the Army’s Antidote to Micromanagementoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2023

2022

Stepping On the Managerial Brakesoriginal ↗
31 May 2022
The Simplest Way to Build Trustoriginal ↗
6 May 2022
How to Prioritize Technical Debtoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2022
How to Negotiate an Offer Deadline Extensionoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2022
Web3: Vegas vs. Promised Landoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2022

2021

You Don’t Have to Manage, But You Still Have to Leadoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2021
Gavage: Don’t Force Feed Your Funnelsoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2021
The Principle of Least Surprises and Stakeholder Managementoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2021
Things To Do Before And After You Write Codeoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2021
Disrespectful Design, Part IIoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2021
Poetry, Essays, and Code That Lets you Get on with Your Dayoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2021
How to Creatively Solve Problems as a Non-Creative Personoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2021
The Hidden Structural Costs of Incompetenceoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2021
Why All Engineers Must Understand Management: The View from Both Laddersoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2021
Disagree and Commit And Prove Yourself Wrongoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2021

2020

Product/Culture Dualityoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2020
Organizational Psychologist vs. Organizational Mechanicoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2020
Using Systems Thinking to Understand Personal Financeoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2020
A Small Difference in Developer Productivity Can Amplify Over Timeoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2020
Mission Tactics: When Under-Specifying is Goodoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2020
Good Architecture: Data Model vs. Data Floworiginal ↗
20 Nov 2020
4 Hiring Myths Common in HackerNews Discussionsoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2020
The Shape of Technical Debtoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2020
Hire people you believe in—believe in the people you hireoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2020
Code is a liability, not an assetoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2020
How I Started Writing Moreoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2020
Push vs. Pull-based Urgencyoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2020
Is Revenue Model More Important than Culture?original ↗
20 Sept 2020
Disrespectful Design—Users aren’t stupid or lazyoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2020
Data is Not a Substitute For Good Judgmentoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2020
Write a Design Doc—even if no one else will read itoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2020
Our hiring process is what we can get away withoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2020
The Software Over-specification Death Spiraloriginal ↗
10 Jul 2020
Software as a Liabilityoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2020