Operations
Runbooks, on-call, incident response, and the difference between documentation that exists and documentation that works at 3am under pressure.
Writing
Notes from
the work.
Code, configuration, postmortems, and opinions formed by having to live with the decision afterwards. No newsletter funnel, no hot takes.
- 003 The runbook nobody reads Documentation fails at 3am. What to write instead, with a template. Sep 2026
- 002 Building for the long run Why the systems that survive are the boring ones, and how to choose boring on purpose. Sep 2026
- 001 Shipping beats planning A working prototype ends more arguments than a perfect document ever will. Aug 2026
Subjects
Three themes keep recurring, because they are the three places I have watched competent teams lose the most time.
Longevity
Why boring technology outlives clever technology, and how to argue for the dull choice in a room that wants to be excited.
Delivery
Prototypes over proposals, evidence over assertion, and shipping something small this week instead of something perfect next quarter.