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Articles on engineering, systems thinking, and design.
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Analog vs. Digital — What You Feel vs. What You Hear
It doesn't matter what you hear. It matters what you feel. When you optimize for what's measurable, you lose what's not.
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The One-Metric Trap
In A/B testing, you pick one metric. The discipline is real. But the skill is hearing what you lost when you chose it.
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Four Depths
Four words that describe the same system at different depths.
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How Remote Desktop Became a Video Codec — A 35-Year Accident
The protocol running under your RDP sessions exists because of a poem, a trademark dispute, and a corporate betrayal.
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Your Resume Has a Personality. And It's Dating the Wrong Companies
Senior engineers don't just have resumes — they have archetypes. Each one attracts a very specific kind of employer. Usually the wrong one.
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Python pathlib
Technically sound. Practically a trap for anyone who reads Path and thinks "filesystem."