John Obelenus

Archive

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