On Focus and Progress

Noise is cheap and speed is often mistaken for momentum. Why deliberate architectural focus is the rarest asset in modern technology.

The technology landscape moves in violent weekly hype cycles. One week it is one architecture, the next week another framework. It is easy to confuse motion with progress.

Doing Fewer Things, Unreasonably Well

True progress is quiet. It looks like: - Refining a database index until queries drop from 400ms to 8ms. - Stripping away three unused features so the primary flow becomes effortless. - Spending days getting typography and typographic rhythm right.

The things they say you can't do are often simply the things requiring more patience than most are willing to give.