🚪 Zero Points for Integrity
Integrity is a company value. It's also the one nobody gets Bonusly points for. A story about a locked bathroom door, what I did when it wouldn't open, and why I can't follow leaders who'd rather explain than act.
Move Fast and Break Everyone
I spent 20 years building the tools that were supposed to save us. Instead, I think I helped build a circus. This is the confession part.
They Were So Preoccupied With Whether They Could 🦖
Jeff Goldblum delivered that line in 1993 as sci-fi cautionary tale. Thirty years later it's a product roadmap — and your company isn't just running the park anymore. They're replacing the park rangers. And the engineers reviewing AI PRs aren't overseers. They're the training data.
We Regret to Inform You That the Parody Is the Reality 🤯
We're living inside a sci-fi parody that can't decide which genre it is. Robots, AI takeover, authoritarian drift, alien disclosure, and the end of expertise. It would be funny. It's not.
Trillion-Dollar Club: A Membership Nobody Should Be Eligible For
A trillion dollars isn’t a personal achievement — it’s a system diagnostic. Here’s what the math, the homelessness data, and a circuit breaker can teach us about a government that forgot its own job.
Deprecated: How Engineering Learned to Treat People Like Legacy Code
Engineering used to hold itself to something higher than the transaction. Somewhere between the rise of the giants and the race to deprecate human work, we forgot Kant’s most basic rule. This is about that.
Stop Flinching: Engineering Built a Culture That Can't Take a Punch 🥊
Engineering optimized so hard for avoiding pain that it forgot how to take a punch. The result isn’t safety — it’s paralysis. And with AI mid-swing, flinching is the one thing you can’t afford.