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Beer: Thirty People, Twelve Topics
Stafford Beer returns for the Interaction lever, with the invention nobody quotes and the warning that now applies to everything.
Aug 31
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Conway Redux: The Team Did Not Get Bigger
Conway and Team Topologies, and the sizing rule that free generation broke.
Aug 27
Collins: Nothing At Stake
Randall Collins holds the Interaction lever in Building, and his answer to what a team runs on is the one claim here that no tool can touch.
Aug 24
A Very Weird Form of Management
Willison, Karpathy, Boeckeler, Orosz and Hochstein, and what the people doing the work agree on.
Aug 20
Beck: Two Commits, Never One
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler on why the cheapest discipline in software is the one that stopped happening.
Aug 17
Parnas: Designed to Be Deleted
David Parnas returns, and the property nobody designs for is the one that decides whether your system can still be changed.
Aug 13
Ohno: Nobody Pulled This
Taiichi Ohno returns for Building, and his least-quoted idea explains why your delivery got slower.
Aug 10
Ousterhout: Nobody Decided to Make It This Complicated
Complexity and Understanding
Aug 7
Sennett: The Hand Teaches the Head
Skill is made in the doing, not the telling, and Sennett spent a career showing why.
Aug 4
July 2026
The Last Thirty Per Cent Is Where Your App Is Made
How Charity Majors and Addy Osmani explain the part of building AI helps with and the part it hides.
Jul 31
Burgess: What a Builder Can Promise
Promises imply control.
Jul 28
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The Spec and the Skill
Why Skills are the Question before every build answer
Jul 24
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