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Stories, systems & the questions in between.
Notes from the intersection of running engineering organizations and writing fiction. The occasional rabbit hole.
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Predictable Beats Heroic
Two years spent making reliability uneventful — and the quiet things that cost.
The first incident bridge I ran at Sequifi was a good one, by the standards of the time. Seven people, three time zones, a customer with real money moving through a system that had stopped moving it. We found the cause a…
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AI Amplifies Discipline, It Doesn’t Replace It
The 25% velocity gain came from the gates we kept, not the tools we adopted.
When we rolled Copilot, Cursor, and Claude out across the engineering org last year, the number everyone wanted was the velocity gain. We landed around 25 percent, sustained over two quarters, with no measurable slip in …
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Why I Write the Curse Instead of the Cure
Four novels, three universes, and the one fear that keeps surfacing: capability arriving before conscience.
I have written four novels across three universes, and somewhere around the third I noticed I had been writing the same book the whole time. Different gods, different centuries, different crimes. The same fear underneath…
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The Man Who Cannot Die
Myth, modern problems, and a story that matters today
Ashvatthama is the warrior the Mahabharata could not let go of. At the close of the war he commits an act so far past the line that the punishment fits nothing in the human ledger: he is denied death. Not granted long li…
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