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Storm with kindness
Tuckman’s stages of group development were difficult enough before. I’ve seen them a number of times and storming still catches me by surprise. The first phase is forming, when you bring a new team together and define goals and roles. As with all new beginnings, there’s some anxiety, but this is also one of the… Read more ⇢
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How many engineers does it take?
With deep affection for all my PM friends. Ask a PM: How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? PM: None. I already spun up a multi-agent workflow: one agent handles torque, one checks wattage, and one monitors the filament. It’s essentially self-healing infrastructure at this point that runs completely in the browser.… Read more ⇢
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Excuse me, could you hold my context?
Someone at work recently said that with AI, their perceived cost of context switching had gone to zero. This surprised me at first because context switching is a notorious bugbear of engineers. Context switching is what happens when someone or something interrupts you during focused work: All of the information your brain was juggling drops… Read more ⇢
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Welcome to the Derangement
I’ve been reading Ian McEwan’s novel What We Can Know (2025). It’s the first work of fiction that’s held my attention in several years. The real world has been so strange that fiction has felt trite. In spite of being populated by pompous poets and unhappy academics, this book pulled me in. There’s a good… Read more ⇢
