Writing
Essays & Articles
On engineering leadership, sociotechnical architecture, and AI adoption.
- Jun 2026
Pandora as an AI Agent: How the Ancient World Can Teach Us About the Future, and Safety
The questions raised by AI agents are not new. The tools are new. The dilemmas underneath them have been with us for three thousand years — and Hesiod mapped them precisely.
- Dec 2025
Architecture Through Different Lenses 2025 ↗
The annual InfoQ architecture trends magazine — my Holistic Engineering article opens the issue, framing the year's themes around sociotechnical thinking and organic problem solving.
- Jan 2025
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.
- 2025
Social Decision Records and Team APIs: Documenting Human Interactions for Better Collaboration ↗
A collaboration with Matthew Skelton on extending Social Decision Records and Team APIs as complementary practices for capturing the human side of team boundaries and interactions.
- Jun 2023
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.