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• Holistic Engineering ↗

  Why treating engineering as a purely technical discipline creates invisible failure modes — and how expanding your model to include the organisational and social systems changes everything.

  Jan 2025

• A Primer on Sociotechnical Architecture

  Software architecture and organisation design are not separate disciplines. They never were. This is the mental model I use to think about both at once.

  Mar 2024

• Social Decision Records: Capturing the Human Context of Architectural Decisions ↗

  Architecture decisions are social before they are technical. Social Decision Records capture who was in the room, what was the political context, and what constraints were invisible — the things that ADRs were never designed to hold.

  Jun 2023