Irrational Exuberance

Imprint’s average engineer is merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago.

One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them.

One thing that bothered me about Imprint’s product after joining was our lack of passkey support.

Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap.

Eight years ago, I wrote about my theory of restoring struggling teams, which came down to four steps: A team is falling behind if each week their backlog is longer than the week before.

I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”, which is the idea that there are many distinct layers of soil, from topsoil all the way down to bedrock, which all combine into a soil horizon.

From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging, but also educational.

Last week, a colleague asked why I’d hired an additional new leader onto an important area rather than expanding an existing leader’s scope to incorporate that area as well.

One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized.

At some point, you will have learned about the passive voice, where the actor in a sentence is unclear.

When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete.

In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation was the area with the second most comments.