Archive - Building & Learning

Engineering & The Creation of Value, Part II

Owning a Company Seems Like Kind of a Pain Why Does Anyone Bother

Jul 14 •

Engineers & The Creation of Value, Part I

Does What Engineers Do Even Matter? No One Knows.

Jul 8 •

June 2025

The Tech Investment Cycle

A Framework for Engineering Leaders to Guide Technical Investments

Jun 30 •

Building Visibility: Core Product Refactoring

Tactics For Building Visibility Into Value When Improving Legacy Systems

Jun 23 •

The Golden Cesspool

In Which I Openly Steal An Idea From One Edmund Jorgensen

Jun 20 •

Tech Investments: Favor Repeated Cycles Over One-Off Projects

If you're stuck in an oppositional relationship with stakeholders who don't seem to care about anything except their feature list, it may feel like your…

Jun 18 •

Tech Investments: Build Visibility Into Value

Instead of technical debt, engineering leaders can ask their teams and stakeholders to talk about technical investments, which I'll define as:

Jun 16 •

Tech Investments, Not Tech Debt

I believe that the metaphor of "Technical Debt" started it's life as a very useful prompt for economic thinking…

Jun 13 •

Welcome To Building & Learning

An Introductory Post, As It Were

Jun 12 •

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