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Nick Sirianni … 2021: Hired as an offensive coach -> gives up play-calling by midseason.Can’t run the offense himself. 2022: Elite coordinators (Shane Steichen, Jonathan Gannon) carry the team to Super Bowl LVII appearance.Success comes around Sirianni, not from him. 2023: Coordinators leave -> Nick picks replacements ? total collapse.Can’t identify or hire competent coordinators. (more)
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1. The Meaning of “Engineer” Got Diluted In many organizations, “software engineer” became a title rather than a discipline. Hiring scaled faster than mentorship or rigor. Bootcamps and tech companies alike started prioritizing velocity (shipping features) over engineering principles (designing systems). So the title now covers everyone from true systems thinkers to people copy-pasting Stack (more)
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Introduction: Why Complexity Matters Complexity isn’t just an unavoidable reality of software development—it’s the reality. As systems grow, so does the cognitive load on the humans maintaining them. If we don’t actively manage complexity, it manages us, leading to unmaintainable code, burned-out engineers, and systems that collapse under their weight. This document attempts to frame (more)
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Why so [not] serious? For a good long while, Jim Carrey had put his goofy, larger-than-life characters on the shelf. The comedic madness of his Ace Ventura or The Mask era? A thing of the past. Carrey wanted to be a serious artist. Then came Sonic the Hedgehog—a franchise that didn’t need to be more (more)