Notes on building systems — and the people who build them.
Essays and notes on engineering leadership, developer productivity systems, the builder’s psychology, and occasional Stoic-flavored self-interrogation.
Currently thinking about
- Delegation as identity work (not a task-routing problem)
- Productivity systems that reduce anxiety, not just increase throughput
- Stoicism applied: control vs influence, and decision-making under ambiguity
Latest essay
Why delegation feels like betrayal (and how to do it anyway)
Delegation is a loaded word. If it feels emotional, that’s because it touches identity—competence, control, and self-reliance. Here’s a model and a playbook.
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Recent notes
- • adenhq/hive: Outcome driven agent development framework that evolves
- • GitHub - glittercowboy/get-shit-done: A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode.
- • How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
- • StrongDM Software Factory
- • Agents that never forget (memory is a product feature)
- • Awkward 1:1s and getting honest feedback
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