The Loop of Doom: How Implementation-First Thinking Kills Engineering
Walk into enough technology organisations and you will observe the same pattern repeating itself. Teams ship fast. Incidents multiply. Architecture degrades. Morale erodes. Yet delivery never slows down. On the contrary, it accelerates.
This is not progress. It is a loop of doom.
Monday Myth: “We Ship Fast Now. We Fix It Later.”
There is a persistent myth in modern IT and product organisations: that rushing a delivery without proper acceptance criteria is a valid trade-off in the name of speed.
The Day I Stopped Lowering the Bar for Anyone
Two cats gone. Lola first. Minette now.
Both died with their eyes open, and with a level of dignity that people in positions of responsibility no longer even attempt to match.
The Illusion of The One: Why Modern IT Recycles Its Best and Rewards Its Worst
A Matrix-inspired dissection of modern IT, infused with the Architect’s precision.
The Joy of Clean Interfaces: Why Respecting Standards Is the Ultimate Acceleration Hack
Every company claims it wants speed. Very few earn it. Real acceleration does not come from heroics, fashionable frameworks, or quarterly alignment rituals. It comes from a single, unglamorous truth:
Interfaces decide everything.