9th February 2026 - Link Blog AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It (via) Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a "U.S.-based technology company". This captures an…

How surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe. For a while—in the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s—it felt like nerds were making the world a better place. Now, it feels like the most successful tech companies are making it worse. Internet surveillance, the algorithmic…

Delivery Lead Time (DLT) is a software delivery metric popularised in the book Accelerate (2018). It measures the time it takes to ship changes for a given code base. I work on an Engineering Insights system at a BigTech company. Delivery Lead Time is one of the metrics we measure and provide for…

Making quieter technology Posted on August 7, 2022 Technology constantly calls for my attention, like a needy child. Attention is engagement and engagement is profit. Thus the best minds of our generation are busy grabbing my attention by increasingly coercive means. This is a post about how I…

Collaboration is amazing! There’s absolutely no trade-offs, right? The mantra of sharing your work and involving everyone in decisions naturally leads to inviting and copying people into things that add no value to them, or you. That’s from “The Case Against Collaboration”, an interesting piece…