Unpublished Articles

What if we uncovered better ways of writing software, and nobody cared? Unpublished

Agile briefly made some teams serious students of delay. AI may create another such window, and the industry may once again prefer the costumes to the theory.

Small ideas cast long shadows Unpublished

Markdown is now the lingua franca of the AI age

Eight lessons from Steve Yegge's Platform Rant Unpublished

A commentary on the Rosetta Stone of SOA

Does AI do better with monorepos or small services? Unpublished

Exploring the paradox of unified context vs. focused boundaries in the LLM era

Pairing Is Collaboration That Ships Unpublished

Close collaboration focused on producing working software is an evergreen technique

A Probabilistic Measurement of Programmer Productivity Unpublished

Why batting average matters more than perfect swings

The optimal size of a platform team is zero. Is it the right size? Unpublished

What Made Thoughtworks Work, Part 2: Talent Unpublished

Unfinished thoughts on early ThoughtWorks talent strategy