Practical writing for distributed engineering teams — decision practices, async culture, and knowledge management.
Every undocumented decision is a future knowledge debt payment. The problem isn't that teams make bad decisions — it's that the context behind good decisions disappears.
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Slack is excellent at real-time communication. It is terrible at preserving knowledge. Understanding the difference changes how you think about engineering team tooling.
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Most teams measure onboarding by when a new engineer ships their first PR. That's the wrong metric. Here's what actually predicts long-term productivity.
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Architecture Decision Records are theoretically great. In practice, most teams abandon them within a month. Here's what patterns actually stick — and why.
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Async-first doesn't mean no synchronous communication. It means treating async as the default — and designing your team's practices around that assumption.
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