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Amdahl's Law for Engineering Teams: Why 10x Developers Don't Scale

8/13/2025

Apply queuing theory to eliminate team bottlenecks and achieve linear scaling with engineer count.

API Affordances and Discoverability: Design SDKs That Teach Themselves

8/13/2025

Create APIs so intuitive that developers succeed on the first try without reading documentation.

Decision Memo Patterns for Engineers

8/13/2025

Write-first engineering to reduce rework.

Designing for Failure Domains

8/13/2025

Minimize blast radius by design.

14 Developer Mindset Topics (Index)

8/13/2025

Index of mindset posts for expert engineers.

Error Taxonomy Design: Turn Exceptions into Exceptional UX

8/13/2025

Design error systems that guide users to success instead of just documenting failure.

The Hidden Geometry of Data Models

8/13/2025

Shape-preserving transformations across time.

Latent Complexity Budgeting: The Hidden Tax on Every Line of Code

8/13/2025

Treat complexity like a financial budget to prevent the technical debt spiral that kills velocity.

Mental Models for Caching: Stop Breaking Production with Cache Logic

8/13/2025

Use memory psychology to design caches that are fast, correct, and won't wake you up at 3 AM.

Negative Capability: The Debugging Superpower Nobody Teaches

8/13/2025

Master the art of uncertainty to debug impossible problems faster than senior engineers.

The Perceptual Load of Code: Why Smart Devs Write Dumb PRs

8/13/2025

Apply cognitive science to ship faster code reviews, fewer bugs, and APIs that developers actually want to use.

Production as a Learning System

8/13/2025

Use prod safely as your fastest feedback loop.

Semantic Logging as Narrative: When Your Logs Tell the Perfect Crime Story

8/13/2025

Transform chaotic event streams into compelling detective stories that solve production mysteries in minutes, not hours.

Temporal Coupling: The Silent Killer of System Reliability

8/13/2025

Master time-aware architecture to eliminate 80% of production incidents and ship features without fear.

The Tactile Interface of Text: Why Milliseconds Matter More Than Algorithms

8/13/2025

Optimize your text pipeline to think faster, code better, and ship more—the hidden bottleneck every developer ignores.