Engineering leadership, neurodivergence, and technology -- by Yasser Makram
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Your Wearable Is a Witness, Not a Judge
Wearables arrive with the kind of confidence that two-decimal precision allows. They are describing one substrate, not the whole organism. This post is about how to demote the watch from judge to witness, and when to ...
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Panopticon vs Agency: What I Catch Myself Doing in Management
Most engineering ceremonies are panoptic: architectures of visibility that get teams to police themselves on behalf of the org. The Adlerian alternative isn't no visibility; it's separation of tasks. What I catch myse...
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Code Is Still Documentation. Docs Can Finally Keep Up.
Prose docs were abandoned because keeping them fresh cost more than they were worth when stale — not because they were useless. Agent-generated docs collapse that cost. Old use cases get rescued; one new one emerges: ...
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Your Standup Is Industrial Clock-Time Cosplay: Rethinking Engineering Ceremonies for the Agent Era
The daily standup — and most engineering ceremonies — are products of industrial clock-time, a coordination technology invented in the 18th century to synchronise factory labour. AI agents are the first technology in ...
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The Courage to Be Disliked: Adlerian Psychology for Engineering Teams That Burn Bright and Burn Out
I spent ten years reading stack traces; now I'm supposed to read rooms. Rooms don't have error messages. How Adlerian psychology gave a neurodivergent engineering manager the explicit framework that intuition-based ad...
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Lessons from the Trenches: How We Paid Less and Got More from AWS
I am old enough to have used CORBA, and COM+. Lucky enough to be building distributed loosely coupled systems for 20 years. Now witnessing how easy and accessible distributed technology have become. Many of the princi...
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Microservices Patterns Chapter 1 Notes
Microservices Patterns