Writing
Mostly engineering leadership, lately through the lens of endurance sport: resilience, pacing, slow productivity. New essays go out first on my Substack; subscribe there if you want them in your inbox. Older posts cover iOS development and weekly reading lists. Browse by category.
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A Good Race on a Gale Warning Day
A wonderful week in Wilmington finished with a good performance on a gale warning day.
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Turning My Garmin Data into GitHub-Style Heatmaps
Garmin opened a Personal API, so I built a small library that turns my training into GitHub-style activity grids on this site, and learned the most from what broke in production.
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There Is No Such Thing as a Recovery Sprint
Meta tripled its code output with AI and got a 40% rise in incidents. Any running coach would have called it: you don't get faster by making every day a hard day.
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The Cognitive Dissonance of Working in Tech Right Now
During the pandemic we were allowed to say things were scary. In tech today, doubt about AI reads as resistance, and that is a burnout machine leaders can switch off.
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California International Marathon Training Log: The Road to Sub-3, Week 1
The first week of my 12-week build toward a sub-3 marathon at the California International Marathon.