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Documentation as a Leadership Practice
Every undocumented system is a single point of failure wearing a person's name. Documentation isn't a nice-to-have. It's a resilience strategy.
Blast Radius: Why Infrastructure Teams Build Tools
Infrastructure teams build tools because their blast radius is enormous. When your work touches every application in the organization, the leverage of a good tool (or the damage of a bad one) scales differently than it does for an application team.
Work From Home Ergonomics: The Office I've Built Over Time
I didn't build my home office all at once. It evolved piece by piece over a few years, driven by actual pain points rather than aspirational Pinterest boards. Here's what I'm running, what I'd buy again, and what I'm still evaluating.
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Systems for Families
Operational approaches to neurodivergent parenting
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Infrastructure tinkering and after-hours builds
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