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The craft · opinion12 Aug

Agile theater: stand-ups, post-its, and zero decisions

How so many companies adopt the Agile look without changing anything that matters, turning their ceremonies into corporate theater.

12 min
The craft13 Jul

Multi-Project Hell: On Three Teams at Once and Truly on None

Why being spread across four or five projects at once doesn't make you more efficient — it just leaves you shallow on all of them, according to the science of context switching.

13 min
The craft · opinion29 Jun

Meetings That Should Have Been a Pull Request

Why so many technical decisions that could fit in three paragraphs of a PR end up becoming an hour-long video call with ten people and a Head of Something.

11 min
The craft15 Jun

The False Consensus: When Nobody Dares Say the Idea Is Bad

Why teams nod along when they should push back, how silence turns into a collective decision, and what it takes to break that pattern.

13 min
The craft · opinion08 Jun

The cult of urgency: when everything was needed yesterday and tomorrow will be worse

False urgency has become the default operating mode in tech companies, with a real cost in productivity and mental health.

16 min
The craft · opinion03 Jun

"Senior": the title you earn by surviving, not by standing out

The 'senior' title in the tech industry is handed out far too often for tenure and chaos tolerance, not for real technical judgment.

8 min
The craft25 May

The full-stack developer cult: lots of stack, not much depth

Why the all-powerful full-stack myth benefits companies and coding schools, and what it costs developers in quality, career growth, and mental health.

14 min
The craft11 May

The Committee: Where Good Ideas Go to Die Slowly

Why committee-based decisions tend to be inefficient, and what organizational research says about designing better collective decision-making processes.

17 min
The craft · opinion04 May

The Price of Being Right

Why technical discussions turn into identity battles — and how to survive without losing your craft or your sanity.

13 min
The craft · opinion13 Apr

Toxic metrics: story points, commits, and other creative ways to fool yourself

Why measuring productivity with story points, commits, or lines of code destroys teams, and what metrics actually make sense.

19 min
The craft · opinion05 Mar

The subscription model sucks

We keep paying anyway, because they've got us right where they want us. On subscription fatigue, BWM's heated seat fiasco, enshittification, and what you can actually do about it.

13 min
The craft · opinion26 Feb

The psychological cost of always being "up to date"

If you measure your worth against an aggregate of other people's highlights, you always lose. On tech FOMO, training burnout, and why falling a bit behind on purpose is a good idea.

12 min
The craft · opinion23 Feb

A "professional hygiene" guide for developers

It's not about productivity or 'wake up at 5 AM.' It's about how not to burn yourself out along a 25-30 year career.

10 min
The craft · opinion16 Feb

Checklist: "Is this idea worth a tech article?"

How to decide if an idea deserves an article (and your time), or if you're better off closing the tab and getting back to your coffee.

9 min
The craft15 Feb

From "Move Fast" to "Ship Crap": When Speed Eats Quality

How bad metrics (OKRs, velocity, features per quarter) are pushing a lot of products over the edge.

8 min

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