John Obelenus

Archive

  1. Complexity Has To Live Somewhere
  2. Work As Imagined
  3. The ROI of a Solved Problem
  4. Go And See
  5. Rules For Drawing Cartoons
  6. Acting Like an Operator
  7. Ownership At Work
  8. Opinions Held
  9. Humans Acting At Scale
  10. Placeholder for a Conversation
  11. Psychological Safety
  12. Managing Oneself
  13. Up, Down. Both, And.
  14. Loops, Loops, and More Loops
  15. Engineering in the Time of Product Market Fit
  16. Energy Levels
  17. A Diagnosis Metaphor
  18. Silos are Bad, Handoffs Fail, Async Is Hard
  19. Two Beliefs About Organizational Constraints
  20. Epistemological Models
  21. If You Want To Get Something Done
  22. Both Big & Small
  23. Layers, Complexity, and Trends
  24. Space Required
  25. Choosing What Problem To Have
  26. Modals Are The Worst
  27. Choices: Engineering, Organizations, and Constraints
  28. Front-End: Declarative vs Objective-Orientated
  29. Reading Isn't Enough
  30. Code As Communication
  31. Engineering Speed is a Symptom
  32. My Own (New) Management Reflections
  33. What Is My Culture?
  34. Ruffled Role Feathers, Why We Need Generalists
  35. Product vs Engineering
  36. MTTR is the Most Valuable Piece
  37. Valuing Glue & Eyes Up
  38. Kent Beck's Sigmoid Curve
  39. How You Can See Me At My Best
  40. The Value of Append-Only
  41. Your Biggest Network Cost
  42. More Mentoring
  43. Remote: How it works for me
  44. Not Everything Is Tech Debt
  45. Against the Purists
  46. What Building Software Feels Like
  47. A Responsible Individual
  48. Resilient Microservices
  49. Finding Information Is Hard
  50. Shared Understanding, Imperfect Representation
  51. Progressive Delivery
  52. Technical Debt Will Not Kill You
  53. Now, imagine other people are different from you
  54. Reading Code Is Hard
  55. MVP means lots of different things.
  56. Lots of $%&#! Agile
  57. Why Don’t Engineers Write?
  58. A 57 Million Dollar Story
  59. Signposts on the Road
  60. Valuing Things That Break
  61. Valuing Outside Perspective
  62. Valuing Understanding
  63. Valuing Meetings
  64. Observability: a goal
  65. RDBMS + ORMs are too good. It is a problem.
  66. Fun with the Event Loop
  67. Many Hammers, Many Nails
  68. Reflections On a Decade In Consulting