The Archive 11 essays

THE BLOG.

Black-and-white street scene with gridlocked cars beside a flowing stream of scooters in Saigon traffic.
culture

02 MAY 2026

The Car Turns Us into Bad Systems Thinkers

Traffic reveals how quickly private inconvenience can eclipse shared consequence, and how fragile flow becomes when everyone optimises locally.

an engineer in front of a white board solving a problem
culture

16 JAN 2026

Case Study: Engineering Management in Action

A case study on how I approached an engineering team in crisis.

a diagram showing the balance required for product management
culture

16 JAN 2026

A Product Management Manifesto

I believe product management is a decision-making discipline under uncertainty, focused on reducing risk and learning quickly rather than shipping features on faith.

a picture showing people solving complex problems
culture

16 JAN 2026

An Engineering Management Manifesto

I don’t manage engineers to control output. I manage systems so that people can do work that matters, with autonomy, honesty, and care.

two Buddhist monks pair programming
technical-debt

24 OCT 2025

Why Every Scrum Master Should Know How Code Works

Most project failures aren’t technical — they’re process failures. And the one person who could have stopped them didn’t know how to read code.

Spongebob meme putting DevOps on the rainbow
agile

14 OCT 2025

DevOps Is the Real Scaling Framework

DevOps—not SAFe or LeSS—is the true path to scalable agility. Learn how architecture, automation, and team design solved the scaling problem.

Charleton Heston with musket
agile

09 SEPT 2025

Jir’Ah, the Paperwork Deity: Why Jira Is a Shitty Agile Tool

Why a tool like Jira is not neutral

Terence McKenna
agile

04 SEPT 2025

Culture, is not your friend

Discussion on culture and the role of coach as cultural change agent

Bourdain skull logo
agile

27 AUG 2025

The Cook and the Coder

applying the life lessons of a line cook to coding with a team

cover of "Men at Arms" by Pterry Pratchett
agile

27 AUG 2025

Vimes vs The Machine: What Terry Pratchett Can Teach Us About Agile Cultural Transformation

Applying lessons from Vimes and Pterry to agile

bill hicks
personal

25 AUG 2025

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