The Question Isn't Whether You Can Code
Most debates about engineering managers and technical skills ask the wrong question. The right one: can you tell when your team is off?
Software Was Always the Amplifier
The 'software eats the world' thesis missed something: software was always an amplifier for human operations, not a standalone value creator. Amazon's warehouse headcount isn't a bug in the thesis.
Unnecessary Complexity Is a Hallucination With Extra Steps
When a system becomes too tangled, it almost always means one thing: there was no clarity at the start. Complexity doesn't make a system mature — simplicity makes it resilient.
The OODA Loop and Why Interpretation Beats Speed
Everyone talks about the OODA loop as 'be faster.' But the hardest and most overlooked phase — Orient — is where most organizations fail. Two teams looking at the same data will reach different conclusions. Understanding why is the real competitive advantage.
Systems Thinking — The Engineering Skill That Will Stay Valuable
Frameworks come and go. Systems thinking stays. Why the ability to see feedback loops, bottlenecks, and second-order effects is more critical now than ever — and how Amazon used it to generate $40-50B in annual revenue from a single investment.