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Last updated 17 days ago

What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs?

17 days ago

Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy a book...

My desk setup in 2025.

24 days ago

Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think...

Stuff I learned at Carta.

about 1 month ago

Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to...

systems-mcp: generate systems models via LLM

about 2 months ago

Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing...

How to provide feedback on documents.

about 2 months ago

At Carta, we recently ran a reading group for Facilitating Software Architecture...

Public company comparables.

about 2 months ago

A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss...

How to filter out old email from inbox

about 2 months ago

Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in...

How should Stripe deprecate APIs? (~2016)

2 months ago

While Stripe is a widely admired company for things like its creation...

library-mcp: working with Markdown knowledge bases

2 months ago

At work, we’ve been building agentic workflows to support our internal Delivery...

Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites

2 months ago

Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on...

Why did Stripe build Sorbet? (~2017).

3 months ago

Many hypergrowth companies of the 2010s battled increasing complexity in their codebase...

How to get better at strategy?

3 months ago

One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of...