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12
Dec
The Product Oracle: When Intuition Replaces Discipline

The Product Oracle: When Intuition Replaces Discipline

There is a recurring organisational pathology that hides behind the language of product leadership, customer focus, and business alignment. It
5 min read
10
Dec
What the Hunting Licence Reveals About Systems, Tradition, and the Discipline Modern IT Lost

What the Hunting Licence Reveals About Systems, Tradition, and the Discipline Modern IT Lost

The French hunting licence is not a recreational certification. It is a demanding, consequence-driven system refined over more than fifty years. It embodies principles that modern IT has repeatedly forgotten.
5 min read
05
Dec
The Illusion of The One: Why Modern IT Recycles Its Best and Rewards Its Worst

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.
3 min read
04
Dec
The Joy of Clean Interfaces: Why Respecting Standards Is the Ultimate Acceleration Hack

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.
4 min read
03
Dec
The Ultimate Red Flag

The Ultimate Red Flag

“We Are All the Same Team” The strongest teams never need to say this sentence. The weakest teams repeat it endlessly.
3 min read
02
Dec
The Russian Dolls of Real Engineering

The Russian Dolls of Real Engineering

Most organisations lose track not because people lack discipline, but because the work lacks a centre of gravity. Teams optimise for tasks, not concepts. They produce fragments, not systems. They move fast, but without structure, so speed becomes noise.
3 min read
01
Dec
Monday Myth: “Engineering Must Know Everything in Advance”

Monday Myth: “Engineering Must Know Everything in Advance”

A stubborn myth persists in tech: engineering must foresee everything before writing a single line of code. Perfect requirements. Perfect risk maps. Perfect predictability. It is not professionalism. It is fear.
3 min read
28
Nov
Friday Fun: The Gollums of Tech

Friday Fun: The Gollums of Tech

Every organisation has at least one Gollum. Not evil. Worse. Someone who clings to a system, a domain, or a piece of code with a devotion completely disconnected from reality.
4 min read
26
Nov
How to Dismantle a Chaos Monarchy

How to Dismantle a Chaos Monarchy

Every organisation has at least one: the engineer who built a personal kingdom out of chaos and called it “expertise”. The real tragedy is not the system they created, but the leadership that allowed it to exist.
5 min read
25
Nov
The System Lives Longer Than You

The System Lives Longer Than You

In every mature engineering discipline, the creator disappears and the system remains. Railways, bridges, aircraft, industrial plants, power grids, and
4 min read