Writing
Essays & Articles
On engineering leadership, sociotechnical architecture, and AI adoption.
- Apr 2025
AI Adoption Is an Organisational Problem
Most engineering teams are treating AI adoption as a tooling question. It's not. The hard part isn't picking the right model — it's redesigning how the team works around it.
- 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.
- Mar 2024
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.
- 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.