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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No more tech debt

For the first time in my career we _completed_ a design system migration. The new math on big rewrites tickles my soul.

When code is cheap, judgement becomes the job

Software engineering has changed in the last 2 years. Here's how that looks without the fluff. Real company, big stakes, finite token budget