How Do I Smooth Platform Team Friction?

Reduce friction between a platform team and the product teams that depend on it using measurable thresholds and three communication-cost levers.
A platform engineer reviewing a queue of pull requests from multiple product teams to identify coordination bottlenecks.

How Do I Use Conway's Law?

An index of five focused guides on applying Conway’s Law: smoothing platform friction, serving the org, diagnosing delivery, decoding software deployments, and pitching a better architectural design.
A technical leader picking among five field guides on applying Conway's Law to different organizational situations.

What Is Conway's Law?

Conway’s Law says software mirrors the organization that built it. Learn the mechanism, the inverse Conway maneuver, and why team shape is architecture.
Teams aligned to modules in a codebase, with module boundaries tracing the communication structure between teams.

How Do I Measure AI Software Development Tool Usage?

A tutorial: run a Python tool to inventory AI coding tool spend, assign owners, and set a token-cost-per-merged-PR baseline you can defend in a budget review.
A spreadsheet view of AI coding tool subscriptions with named owners, monthly cost, and token-per-merged-PR columns.

What is Ollama?

What is Ollama and how does it run large language models locally on consumer hardware?
Diagram showing Ollama as a local service running AI models on a developer's machine, with API connections from tools and applications

Fundamentals of Technical Leadership

Learn the fundamentals of technical leadership: credibility, vision, communication, empowerment, and decision-making that turn engineers into leaders.
Diagram showing the technical leadership workflow: credibility, vision, communication, team empowerment, and decision-making in a reinforcing loop.

What Is fzf?

fzf is a fuzzy finder that turns file selection into a fast, interactive search. Learn how it speeds up opening files in Neovim, macOS apps, and shell workflows.

What Is Claude Code?

Claude Code is Anthropic’s agentic coding tool that runs in your terminal, edits real files, and executes commands. Here’s how it works and why it exists.

What Is Zoxide?

Zoxide is a smarter cd that learns your most-used directories and jumps to them with a short query. Learn how frecency ranking replaces path typing.

What Is Nwave?

Nwave is an agentic AI methodology that runs specialized agents through six waves, with human review between each, enforcing TDD and peer review.