Press · the record
Research, opinion,
Research, opinion,
and the record.
Writing from the practice — what the work teaches us, set down plainly so it's of use to someone else.
Essays · Volume 01
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The compounding of good
Why a small system, handed over and left standing, keeps paying out long after the people who built it have gone.
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The names that pass
On giving the work away, and learning to measure success by how little credit comes back.
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The cosmos of patternship
A practice is a constellation, not a hierarchy. What changes when you arrange the work that way.
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The wanderlust of variables
Software wants to grow. Most of the discipline is in deciding what it must never become.
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The pattern of believing
Trust is the only thing that makes a handover work. A note on building tools people can put down.
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The reach
How far a single good system travels once it stops needing the person who made it.