Slow Deployment Causes Meetings

The Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer

The Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer (2017)

Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess

Ad Hoc Infrastructure – By Kent Beck

Standups: Individual → Teammate

The Documentation Tradeoff

Start presentations on the second slide

Software design gets worse before it gets better

Sales happen when buyers fear missing out

Untangling Spaghetti: Debugging Non-Terminating Object Programs (2009)

Design Is an Island – By Kent Beck

Mastering Programming (2016)

The Pleasure of Pattern

Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024: Geek For Life

Canon TDD

Not my money any more: Lessons from poker (2010)

TDD Outcomes

Coding in the Debugger (2007)

Eventual Business Consistency

Publish Everything (Pretty Much)

Template for Impactful Ideas

Emotions: A Code Book

Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots

Paint Drip People

Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x

How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years

Boss' Dilemma: Taking Responsibility Signals Cooperation

Responsibility: Consequences Flow Towards Power