An Elegant Puzzle is available for pre-order.
April 25, 2019 An Elegant Puzzle is now available for pre-order, and will ship in late May, 2019.
To innovate, first deprecate.
April 7, 2019 Building on my recent post on Magnitudes of exploration, which discusses an approach to balancing platform standardization and exploring for superior platforms, I wanted to also look into this problem from a systems thinking perspective, similar to my previous examination of why limiting work-in-progress works.
Magnitudes of exploration.
April 6, 2019 Standardizing on a given platform or technology is one of the most powerful ways to create leverage within a company: improve the tooling a bit and every engineer will get more productive. Exploration is, in the long run, an even more powerful force, with _successes_ compounding over time. Developing an investment thesis to balance the ratios and timing of standardization and exploration is a core challenge of engineering strategy.
An Elegant Puzzle coming in late May.
April 1, 2019 A quick update on my book, An Elegant Puzzle, and the updated release date in late May.
Fire fixation.
March 23, 2019 Of the early Stripe lore I've encountered, my favorite is that it managed to accomplish a tremendous amount with a small team because folks moved so rapidly from one project to another project that, leaving an afterimage behind them, it appeared that they were everywhere simultaneously.