Good architects don’t chase perfect diagrams — they make smart calls with incomplete info, balancing today’s constraints with tomorrow’s goals and the team they have. Over my 20+ years working in ...

Teams can make any decision after seeking advice from affected parties and documenting it in an ADR. Use context maps to assign clear ownership of system areas to specific teams. Create architectural ...

A small subset of private investment firms compound capital with unusual consistency over full cycles. The difference is a ...

In my last post, I presented an overview of choice architecture and argued there may be a misalignment between the desires of the choice architect and those of the decision-maker. Given that choice ...

Engineering leaders rarely get perfect information, so the job is learning how to decide, experiment and communicate clearly when the data is messy. Engineering leaders face many situations where the ...