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
3 articles from May 2026 · show all
Relentlessly focus on the outcomes
AI makes it easy to focus inwards and feel impressed with all the churn and motion and output you're producing. But your users don't care.
Engineering levels aren't about skill anymore
Traditional engineering levels were about skill progression. I think this has changed. Everyone now is a mini staff engineer.
Just fix their PR
You know what's better than a code review comment? A fix.