Category: Communication


Implementing an RFC Process That Engineers Don’t Hate

The hardest part of an RFC process isn’t designing the template. It’s making sure people actually use it without feeling like they’re filing TPS reports. I’ve written before about When to Write an RFC and When Not To and how it helps in formalizing technical decisions as companies scale. This is the tactical follow-up on …

Questions for the Chaotic Neutral

For the last decade or so, I’ve been collecting questions. Good ones. Weird ones. Chaotic ones. Questions that make people stop and actually think instead of giving the usual autopilot responses. I started out calling them my “Tinder opening lines” because that’s where the idea came from, but they’ve become so much more useful than …

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