Irrational Exuberance
I’m a software engineering leader, technology writer, and currently the CTO at Imprint. I’ve worked at Carta, Calm, Stripe, Uber, a few other places, and cofounded a defunct iOS gaming startup with Luke Hatcher, Monocle Studios. I’ve written three books: An Elegant Puzzle (2019), Staff Engineer (2021), and The Engineering Executive’s Primer (2024). This blog, Irrational Exuberance, has been around since 2007, and I’ve done some public speaking as well.
Recent posts
- Self-reinforcing quality / adopting verification pattern
- Speeding up code review with `small-change`
- Trying the Software factory pattern.
- Roadmap decisions rather than dates.
- Middle management roles are also a trap.
- Generated and suppressed demand.
- Make no assumptions.
- Revised rules of engineering leadership.
- Early and late-stage hypergrowth.
- Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.