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
2 articles from March 2026 · show all
The best engineers just get shit done, sometimes with AI
The best engineers I know never talk about their AI setup. The worst engineers I know only talk about their AI setup.
Taming chaos is a learnable skill
How you approach software engineering makes it harder or easier to handle interruptions and other chaos. Writing a behavioral interview made me realize this is a learnable skill!