Management covers much of my work and studies around project management and production engineering.
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Recent Posts
Math is Dead, and Pickles are Small
— To understand why OpenAI completely upended the world of mathematics with its proof that Navier-Stokes is not smooth in three dimensions, you must first understand that cucumbers of any size can be properly pickled.
Software Gardening
— Garden-inspired development as a non-sinister, people-centric way to think about post-LLM software development
Security Alert: Softlock and ACE via Natural Language Overload
— I think I’ve found a pretty large CVE that has gone without a formal report, despite absolutely saturating the field of software engineering. It’s subtle and…
Lean Software Development: Prelude Notes
— Notes on the prelude chapters of Lean Software Development (2003)
Working with Valves: Understanding the Structure of "Flat" Organizations .pdf
— Many an engineer has heard tales of Valve's "flat" organization structure — what is fact, what is fiction, and how does it actually work? An annotated copy of the 2012 First Edition of Valve's Employee Handbook.
Agentic Programming as Theory Building .pdf
— Do humans have a role in software development anymore? Absolutely — but we need to rethink what it means to program. An modern review of Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"
Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow .pdf
— Annotations for Greiner's 1972 paper "Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow", about the structural composition of organizations at different sizes and requirements.
Littlefield Simulator: The Art of Laziness
— Efficiency: spending six hours building a web scraper to avoid five minutes of daily work. Automating a business simulation because checking in is for chumps.
Utah Office Consult .pdf
— People problems are the hardest engineering problems. A consult on thinking out-of-the-box to explain morale problems in small companies.
Core Posts
Software Gardening
— Garden-inspired development as a non-sinister, people-centric way to think about post-LLM software development
Agentic Programming as Theory Building .pdf
— Do humans have a role in software development anymore? Absolutely — but we need to rethink what it means to program. An modern review of Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"
Math is Dead, and Pickles are Small
— To understand why OpenAI completely upended the world of mathematics with its proof that Navier-Stokes is not smooth in three dimensions, you must first understand that cucumbers of any size can be properly pickled.
Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow .pdf
— Annotations for Greiner's 1972 paper "Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow", about the structural composition of organizations at different sizes and requirements.
Security Alert: Softlock and ACE via Natural Language Overload
— I think I’ve found a pretty large CVE that has gone without a formal report, despite absolutely saturating the field of software engineering. It’s subtle and…
Working with Valves: Understanding the Structure of "Flat" Organizations .pdf
— Many an engineer has heard tales of Valve's "flat" organization structure — what is fact, what is fiction, and how does it actually work? An annotated copy of the 2012 First Edition of Valve's Employee Handbook.
Littlefield Simulator: The Art of Laziness
— Efficiency: spending six hours building a web scraper to avoid five minutes of daily work. Automating a business simulation because checking in is for chumps.