Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• One-way and two-way doors

  6 Jul, 2026

  Not every decision deserves the same agonising. The trick is telling two-way doors — the ones you can walk back through — from one-way doors you can't.

• Conway's Law in practice

  3 Jul, 2026

  Conway's Law in practice: your system will look like your org chart whether you like it or not — the only question is whether you planned for it.

• Optimising for deletion

  1 Jul, 2026

  We obsess over making things easy to add. The systems that age well are the ones where things are easy to remove.

• It depends

  29 Jun, 2026

  The most honest two words in architecture — why every decision is a trade-off, and the real skill is finishing the sentence.