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Mathematicians vs. Lawyers
Two thinking archetypes I keep meeting in architecture rooms, and why your system needs both.
Pricing the Invisible
Your best architecture work produces nothing observable. Backlogs only rank observables. Let's fix the mismatch.
Prompt-Driven Architecture
Part three of the "tools that scale" series: what happens when the daily practice of a Solution Architect starts running on AI.
Probabilistic Metrics
Why the most useful numbers in our AI transformation were never in a database.
From Signals to Blips
How a tech radar became my favorite tool for driving an AI transformation across several hundred developers.
Grinding Dijkstra at Senior Level
Twelve years into my career, there's a repo on my disk where I practice graph traversals like a student. Here's why that's not humiliating.
Questions Are an Architect's Sharpest Tool
The highest-leverage artifact I produce is not a diagram, not a decision record, not a slide deck. It's a list of questions.
The Migration That Never Starts
Every organization has one. Yours does too. It has a folder, a deck, and a birthday.
Nobody Owns the Sum
Every squad owns its piece. The customer buys the whole. Guess which one has no owner.
Decisions Have an Architecture Too
We design our systems obsessively, then let the decisions about them happen by loudest voice.
Data-Driven Theater
Everyone wants decisions backed by data. Almost nobody asks what the data went through to get there.