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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Coding forces you to understand the problem

Programming translates fuzzy understanding into exacting specifications. That’s why it’s hard. The Illusion of Explanatory Depth reigns supreme