Standup Theater: When Agile Becomes Performance
Only 1 in 4 teams keep standups under 15 minutes. The ceremony has consumed the purpose. Here's how standups became theater and what actually works instead....
The Drone Delivery Fantasy: Why We're Still 10 Years Away
Despite $600M funding rounds and $27B market projections, drone delivery faces physics constraints that money can't solve: 20-minute battery life, 5-pound....
Why Your AI Vendor Is Lying to You
How to see through AI vendor marketing: why demos don't match reality, how accuracy numbers lie, and what questions to ask before buying enterprise AI....
Why Async Communication Beats Meetings (Almost Always)
Most meetings are waste disguised as work. The information could have been an email. Teams that default to async outperform teams that fill calendars with meetings....
The Browser Is Your Best Security Sandbox
Modern browsers run untrusted code from millions of sources daily and contain threats successfully....
Microservices Were a Mistake for Most Companies
A monolith with good tests is better than 50 microservices with distributed debugging nightmares. When to use microservices: when you've proven you need them....
When AI Coding Actually Helps: Patterns That Work
AI coding tools made experienced developers 19% slower in METR's study....
The Prompt Engineering Bubble
Prompt engineering as a career is a bubble. As models improve, the skill becomes less valuable, not more....
Grace Hopper's Nanosecond: The Wire That Explains Everything
Grace Hopper's famous nanosecond wire demonstration—and why understanding physical constraints still matters for every system we build today....
The Hidden Cost of AI Calendar Assistants
AI calendar assistants claim massive time savings, but rigorous research reveals a productivity paradox: tools that make you feel faster actually make you....
I Built a CMS at MSNBC Before Anyone Called Them CMSs
In 1996 at MSNBC, I built Workbench - a content management system for editors, copy editors, and photo teams before the term CMS existed....
Watching a Friend Get Hacked in 1987
A 1987 BBS breach taught me about trust models, intrusion detection, and why security-through-obscurity always fails eventually....
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