Essays

Those are my long-form writings. All are written with the hope to stay relevant in the years to come.

APIs Are Ontological Boundaries APIs represent boundaries between systems and their models of reality. Unifying this representation is not a good idea.
Continuous Delivery Is A Risk Management Strategy Continuous Delivery is not a way to develop software faster, but rather to manage risks well
How To Handle Email Calmly How I handle email without anxieties.
How To Survive a Day In Remote Meetings My collection of experiences for handling a day full of remote meetings well.
On Acurracy and Bullshit Acurracy and Bullshit are not in opposition.
On B Players A-Players and B-players are used to label people unnecessarily while ignoring the influence of the environment.
On Computable Ethics Global systems must develop global ethics. We are nowhere near being capable of that.
On Touch Typing Touch typing is a modern superpower. Learn it.
On Uneducated Hiring The practices of hiring seem to carry over from education system experience. Unlearn them.
Programming, Fast and Slow There are two types of projects that require different decision making.
Technology Choices Are Bets Choosing a technology is not a choice, it’s a bet.
There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs Issue gardening can become too much work in itself at the expense of productivity.
We Don't Know What Employment Is Everybody have different expectations of what an employment contract is. These are the common ones.
Which Scale? There are a lot of scales and scaling needs to be discussed within the appropriate context.