Writing

I write to de-risk decisions. If a post reads sharp, it’s aimed at systems, not people.

Reading notes and thought leadership

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Selected writings (recent):

• Coaching the Selfie Generation: A Year of "Me Too" and Muscle Pics
• Warts, Data Models, and Why AI Won't Make You Rich: October's Reading List
• The Art of Building Resilient Product Organizations

→ See the blog archive for more

Notes on management & technology

Selected writings:

• You’re a Tech Lead. What now? (2022)
• Levels of Technical Leadership (2022)
• Measuring errors vs. exceptions in Go and C++ (2018, 2020)
• The Go low-level calling convention on x86-64 (2018)

→ See my workbench archive for more

Academic publications

Previously I was active in computer science research.

Selected articles:

• CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second scaling from zero with multi-region cluster virtualization (2025)
• AM³: Towards a hardware Unix accelerator for many-cores (2015)
• Apple-CORE: harnessing general-purpose many-cores with hardware concurrency management (2012)

→ See my academic archive for more

Themes

• Ahead of the hype: critical dives into AI & LLM news.
• Founder operating rhythms: decision cadence, thin slices, guardrails.
• Quiet leadership: durable org growth; upskilling ICs/managers; communication under load.
• EU⇄US bridges: systems, first hires, cultural edges.