Distributed Veto Power (and the Death of Speed)
A one-day feature turned into eight because too many people had the power to slow it down. Speed isn’t lost in engineering. It leaks through organizational cracks.
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Why Being Better Isn't Good Enough
Are you building a breakthrough business, or just a slightly better feature? Before you write a single line of code, use this two-step framework to validate your potential.
Think Outside the Product
Why did Zoom beat Skype? Why is CRED a status game, not a bill payment app?
Why the "Decentralized" Internet Keeps Breaking
The internet feels global and unbreakable, but it’s quietly centralized behind a handful of infrastructure giants. When one of them stumbles, the modern web forgets how to find itself.
The Cost of SQL Habits on MongoDB Infrastructure
Clusters get bigger, queries get slower, and everyone blames MongoDB. But the real culprit could be schema design built on relational intuition. Here’s why SQL habits are costly, and how to retrain teams to think natively in documents.
The Silent Rewrite of Software Engineering
The ground beneath software engineering is shifting, and the teams moving fastest aren’t rejecting LLMs, they’re weaponising them.
Why Rewrites Fail and Ugly Code Survives
Messiest parts of your codebase are usually the ones holding your entire business together. Rewriting them might be the fastest path to losing customers.
Building in a World Where Nothing Lasts
Startups are built on impermanence. Teams shift, markets vanish, products fade. Mujo isn’t a curse, it’s the truth. Embracing impermanence in startups turns fear into momentum and chaos into clarity.
Project Overload: How Startups Burn Out Their Best People
Startups think they're getting more done by putting people on multiple projects. In reality, they're paying a hidden tax: context switching, diluted focus, and slow motion burnout.
The Art of Breaking Things on Purpose
Instead of hoping systems don’t fail, what if you break them on purpose? To find weak spots before the world does. Netflix, Uber, and Google turned Chaos Engineering into a discipline. Here’s why it matters, how it works, and why it’s the best way to build resilient systems.