Ship fast without breaking things

Every team slows down as it grows. More people, more code, more meetings, less shipping. It doesn't have to be that way.

These essays dig into velocity, teamwork, and taming complexity — the engineering side and the people side. They're the thinking behind Scaling Fast, my book on software engineering through hypergrowth.

Essays on shipping fast

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Solve the problem, not a different more difficult problem

Solve the problem at hand, not the one you imagine might come next. A simple fix now often beats a complex one later.