[m25n]

I’ve reached an interesting point in my career. I started out truly in love with “sitting around and dreaming up new architectural diagrams that can comfortably sit inside [my head].” However, I don’t derive any pleasure from that anymore. Possibly because I’ve had to face the hard reality of what happens when the architecture “outgrow[s] the size of any one person’s head.” I’ve come to be very interested in two things: figuring out how to delay that as long as possible and what to do when you can’t delay anymore. The first seems to be bringing in as little software (in any form) as possible. Dig and dig to find the actual problem and then solve that using as few tools and abstractions that the team can possibly tolerate. The second seems to be about process and Conway’s law. Figure out communication structures to distribute the management of complexity.