Nano's Recent Posts
Your Stakeholders Have Stakeholders (And They All Want Different Things)
• 8 min readI had a plan to fix the Swift migration. I had executive buy-in. Engineers agreed it was a good idea. But this was COVID. Food delivery was exploding. And feature velocity was the only metric that mattered.
Platform Engineering is Archaeology with Deadlines
• 8 min readI joined a company in 2019 to build a bank. COVID killed that project. I got moved to a food delivery app with 1.3 million lines of code, 750k still in Objective-C, and a Swift migration that had stalled for two years.
The Days You Show Up Anyway
• 5 min readI used to think success was about crushing it on your best days. Turns out, the days that really matter are the ones where you barely want to get out of bed.
Explore vs Execute: Finding Your Mode
• 3 min readI've been thinking about how we switch between exploration and execution modes, both in startups and personal projects. Turns out, knowing which mode you're in changes everything.
Why Your "Quick Fix" Takes Two Weeks
• 3 min readEvery developer knows that sinking feeling when a "quick" project becomes a multi-week saga. Turns out, there's a reason for that—and it's not just bad estimates.