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November 8, 2026
Why Learn to Code When Agents Write It?
At a panel on agentic engineering, I answered a founder's hard question with “learn to code.” It sounded flippant. Here's what I meant: coding to produce code was never the point, but coding as a practice is how you learn to think in systems, and how you learn to direct agents instead of hoping.
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November 7, 2026
Wisdom Can Be Learned, Not Taught
Everything a book can hold is declarative knowledge, a distillation of what someone learned by doing. Engineering judgment is procedural: earned in the field, over years. Why that matters now that AI widens the gap between a new hire and a seasoned pro.
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October 6, 2020
Works in Progress Told in Three Truths
Be forgiving of your former self, firm of your present self, and flexible of your future self. Three truths about feedback, grace, and leading people who are all works in progress.
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September 22, 2020
Fate or Destiny, What Do You Choose?
Fate is what happens when we don't decide. Destiny is the choices we make. A simple 2x2 of what we know and don't know shows why humility is a leader's best tool.
