The Coming PR Tsunami
LLMs broke the code production bottleneck, and now review is the constraint. The fix: small atomic PRs, LLM-generated summaries that compress comprehension time, and engineer-owned calibration. Teams that adapt stay ahead. Teams that wait drown in their own queues.
The Pass: Agentic Engineering
You are no longer the line cook. You are the executive chef at the pass, directing agents who compile, test, and retry at high speed. You may not type a single line of code, but you remain accountable for all of it. Your value shifts from labor to leadership.
The Value of Frustration: Your Untapped Guide to Improvement
Frustration isn't just a roadblock—it's an untapped metric for improvement. It often serves as the sole indicator of issues in complex systems. By practicing monitoring and employing second-order thinking, you can transform this emotion into a metric for personal and organizational betterment.
Coding is a bad habit
Don't fall back on your engineering skills when you face challenges. You can't code your way out of organizational issues.
Magic in the Mundane: Compounding Interest For Organizations
There is magic in mundane processes applied with discipline. Use RCAs and processes to massively improve your world.
How to Decide to Fire
Firing is easy when someone is misbehaving. It is much harder when they are performing inconsistently. How do you know when to fire?
Reframing Problems to Move Forward
Nothing can block you from your mission. Problems can change the path you walk, they can constrain you, but they can't stop you. Reframing this way lets you take your ego out of the equation and change your goals without feeling like you've failed.
The Economy of Political Capital
Understanding the ebb and flow of Political Capital will make you more successful in delivering Real Value for your organization.
Speaking To Be Understood
Finding alignment in an organization is hard, but there are some actions you can take that help.
