Analog Workflow for a Digital Persona
2/11/2026
Why a technologist traded digital apps for a physical GTD system. Exploring the engineering behind a low-latency, analog productivity workflow.
All Posts
From Surveillance Boards to Sovereign Teams
2/2/2026
Stop using your Sprint Board for surveillance. Learn how shifting from developer swimlanes to story-centric lanes reclaims team sovereignty and transforms your stand-ups.
Story Points as Categorical Data: Embracing the Cone of Uncertainty
12/11/2025
Stop treating Story Points like fixed units of time. Learn how points function as categorical data and how plotting them against velocity reveals your team's size-specific Cone of Uncertainty for realistic estimation.
I Killed the AoC Architecture Resilience Project on Day 4 (And Why It Was Good Governance)
12/8/2025
The ultimate resilience strategy? Knowing when to stop. This AoC retrospective explores TDD as governance, strategic prioritization, and true architectural discipline.
Architecture & Resilience: AoC 2025 - Day 4: Printing Department
12/4/2025
Day 4 required solving an iterative spatial problem. I used spatial indexing for efficient neighbor counting and a BFS simulation to model the cascading removal of paper rolls.
Architecture & Resilience: Advent of Code 2025 Day 3 – Maximizing Battery Joltage
12/3/2025
The Day 3 challenge demanded maximizing a 12-digit sequence, testing our system's architectural resilience. See the journey from flawed assumptions to implementing the optimized stack, ensuring robustness against extreme scale via BigInt.
Discipline of Resilience: AoC Day 2 - Stress-Testing TDD and Resilience Architecture
12/2/2025
A Principal Architect's breakdown of AoC Day 2. See how TDD and architectural discipline hold up under new requirements, and the limits of AI in generating governed tests.
Discipline of Resilience: Enterprise Architecture in AoC Day 1
12/1/2025
Architects don't just solve problems; we prevent them. See why applying enterprise-grade TDD and strategic overkill to Advent of Code is the only way to build resilience. Day 1.