Editorial Tracks
Five stable voices organize the complete blog. Tags provide the cross-track index.
Engineering Systems (25)
Field Notes (9)
Human Systems (17)
Quest Engine (10)
Software Engineering (24)
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📂 Engineering Systems (25 posts)
- Two Left Socks - Oct 19, 2026
- Good at It Is Not the Same as Wanting It - Oct 18, 2026
- Warming Up the Tires: Team Changes and Career Momentum - Oct 18, 2026
- Development vs Production - Oct 17, 2026
- Quality Engineering vs Engineering Quality - Oct 17, 2026
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📂 Field Notes (9 posts)
- AI, SI, and the Problem With Renaming a Term of Art - Oct 08, 2026
- 2026: iPad Pro, Vision Pro, and a Device Mostly in My Drawer - Jul 25, 2026
- From Apple Silicon to NVIDIA AI Factories - Jul 25, 2026
- gen:LOCK Season 1 by Rooster Teeth - Jul 25, 2026
- 25 Years of Operating Systems: Windows, macOS, and Back Again - Jul 04, 2026
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📂 Human Systems (17 posts)
- Joy, Freedom, Motivation: Matz's Triad and the Quest Engine - Oct 05, 2026
- The MOOC Era Was All Exploration and No Action - Jul 31, 2026
- The Media Consumption Arc: From Video Games to Shows to AI - Jul 25, 2026
- Demystifying Spirituality - Jul 24, 2026
- Quest Engine: Running the Health Quest - Jul 22, 2026
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📂 Quest Engine (10 posts)
- The Contextual Core: Who, What, When, Where - Oct 05, 2026
- The Meta Structure: How to Read the Three Steps - Oct 05, 2026
- The Primary Directive: The Objective Function as Why - Oct 05, 2026
- I Am Often Wrong: The Six-Step System Hiding a Quest Engine - Sep 20, 2026
- Resourcefulness Is Its Own Quest Engine - Jul 05, 2026
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📂 Software Engineering (24 posts)
- Goal, Effort, Verification: Three Directives on the Quest Engine Map - Oct 08, 2026
- Agents Are Taking the Drive - Oct 06, 2026
- Models Are Tools: Portability, Watermarks, and the Work I Want to Keep - Sep 26, 2026
- There Is No Speedup for Shared Understanding - Sep 23, 2026
- The Why Doc and the How Doc: Steering Agents from the Middle - Jul 31, 2026
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