The Incrementalist

Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise (1872) This year felt like a constant exercise in asking one question: what is true.

Take a moment to count the urgent issues you handled this week.

Convergence, 1952 by Jackson Pollock Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an integral part of modern engineering.

Rejection stings.

A few years ago, I discovered Don Miguel Ruiz’s renowned book, The Four Agreements, which provides four simple yet profound principles for personal growth and self-improvement.

Over the last few years, we’ve watched AI take giant leaps in coding – from AI-assisted coding tools like GitHub Co-Pilot to the first AI engineer named Devin.

Louis Moeller, Different Opinions, High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Remember scrambling for notes, losing ideas to the ether, struggling to keep up with tasks, and drowning in a sea of information?

In a world where 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional, mastering the art of leadership is not just a skill but a necessity.

As an engineering leader, you’ve likely faced the challenge of writing proposals for ideas you’re passionate about, whether it’s drafting design docs, request for comments (RFCs), memos, or even slide decks.

Serverless Architecture from Classic Programmer Paintings Most startups that go through hyper-growth tend to face the inevitable Bottlenecks of Scaleups as masterfully described by ThoughtWorks.

Sprint Planning Meeting from Classic Programmer Paintings If you’ve been an engineer for some amount of time in the tech industry, you have probably experienced the highs and lows of sprint planning meetings.

The Daydreamer by Morgan Weistling As a young boy, I always had a tendency to daydream and play out things that could happen in my head.

“Team leads review candidate’s whiteboard, binary-tree inversion solution” from Classic Programmer Paintings As a candidate in my early career, I experienced all sorts of technical interviews, ranging from being asked to write an algorithm on a piece of p…

Are you tired of constantly struggling to remember important information?

An engineer’s journey from a junior to a lead is full of learnings and requires frequent adaption and agility to succeed.

“The code reviewer” from Classic Programmer Paintings Pull Requests (PRs) are a great way of submitting contributions to a project, especially when there are multiple developers working on it at the same time.

“The Dev Estimate” from Classic Programmer Paintings How long do you think it’ll take?

So a few weeks ago I stumbled upon something that reminded me of Arthur C.