Notes

Notes

Rough ideas, short essays, and half-baked thoughts. Less polished than blog posts — more like a public notebook. Read with appropriate skepticism.

Professionals Remove Complexity to Prove They Are Seasoned

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

Downtime Isn't a Failure. It's a Feature.

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

When an Outage Seems Like Magic, It Means You Have Bad Observability

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

Stop Optimizing the Meetings. Start Writing the Code.

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

50-Year-Old Mathematics Saving Modern Companies Millions: The Bloom Filter

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

Build for the Scale You Have Today. Rewrite for the Scale You Earn Tomorrow.

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

We Stopped Updating Data, and Just Started Hoarding It: The LSM Tree

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

You Get Social Capital for Fixing Minor Bugs. You Get Promoted for Solving Business-Threatening Bottlenecks.

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

The Best Engineering Leaders Don't Manage Work. They Manage Risk.

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

I Rejected a PR Today. The Code Compiled. The Feature Worked. I Still Deleted It.

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

I Sped Up a SaaS App by 8x. Then Nearly Destroyed It.

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

He Didn't Build a Time Machine. He Accidentally Built One.

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

Always Leave a Puzzle Piece Missing

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

AI Has Raised the Value of Architectural Judgment to an All-Time High

Jun 1, 2026Engineering

Stop Letting Your Neurochemistry Dictate Your Architecture

Jun 1, 2026Engineering