Essays

Epistemic Injustice in Technical Interviews

Epistemic injustice occurs when knowledge is discounted or unrecognizable due to prejudice or narrow frameworks. Technical interviews are structured sites of both testimonial and hermeneutical injustice.

The compounding knowledge thesis: Why building in public creates exponential returns

Dichotomy of Control in Production Systems

Epictetus divided all things into controllable and uncontrollable. Applied to production systems, this boundary is where engineering wisdom lives.

Integration Architecture Is Where Good Systems Go to Die

Integration points accounted for 58% of production incidents despite representing less than 15% of total codebase. Integration is where architectural quality is tested most severely.

The phenomenology of working with AI—what it actually feels like to think alongside a machine

The Ethics of Data Collection at Scale

Organizations collect 1,400 data points per customer interaction, up from 200 in 2018. The gap between what we can collect and what we should collect is a technical team's responsibility.

Integration patterns: What enterprise architecture teaches about organizing a life

The Thundering Herd of 2026: SRE for AI Agents

AI agents generated 847 million daily API calls in Q4 2025. Traditional capacity planning cannot handle their correlated burst patterns. New SRE approaches are required.

On the Relationship Between Speed and Wisdom

Development cycles compressed 39x since 2005. Speed and wisdom operate on different timescales. Structured slowness, deliberate reflection built into velocity, bridges the gap.

Zero-Trust Architecture as Epistemic Humility

Organizations implementing zero-trust architecture reduced attack surfaces by 68% and eliminated lateral movement in 94% of simulated breaches. Zero trust is epistemic humility, not paranoia.