The barriers to entry for software development keep dropping and more people are pouring in.

Whether that’s good remains to be seen and hinges on how we manage the ecosystem.

I unpack this tension in my latest essay, From Chunky to Smooth, available as article and podcast.

“The Hamfisted Hegemon, or... How To Irreversibly Squander A Century's Hard-Won Privileges For Fun And Profit” [👇 links to read and listen below]

"Frankly, the whole episode was a Data Engineer's worst nightmare, and our lack of progress fills me with dread for the next such cataclysm." [👇 links to read and listen in the comments ]

Why Security And Scalability Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin, or... How To Win Friends And Starve Invading Armies [👇 links in the comments ]

"A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine."

"Buckle up buttercup because we’re all going to play a planetary scale game of Fuck Around Find Out together."

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