03
Dec
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
engineering-leadership
02
Dec
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”
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
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
27
Nov
Common Sense Has Left the Building
There was a time when engineering relied on something simple and powerful: shared understanding. Unwritten principles, basic reasoning, and a sense of direction that did not need to be re-explained every week. The obvious remained obvious.
Today, the obvious is an endangered species.
5 min read
26
Nov
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
In every mature engineering discipline, the creator disappears and the system remains. Railways, bridges, aircraft, industrial plants, power grids, and
4 min read
24
Nov
Monday Myth: The Cult of Belief
The modern workplace has mistaken belief for competence. Leaders preach that unless you “believe in the mission”, “feel aligned”, or “find your spark”, you cannot deliver excellence. Emotional alignment has become a moral test. But this doctrine has produced fragility, not performance
3 min read
20
Nov
Clarity Is the First Platform
Every broken platform begins with a broken language. Semantic decay is the quietest organisational failure, and the most lethal. Systems drift, decisions degrade, and people hide behind vague words they never define. Then they blame engineering for the wreckage they created.
3 min read
19
Nov
Tech Through the Barbarian Lens
Modern tech resembles an empire in decline. The barbarians are not outside the gates. They already run the place.
4 min read