About

Engineering Excellence publishes essays on the craft of building software at scale — leadership, best practices, career growth, and what AI changes in the work.

Pithy engineering advice — "shield your team," "think like a staff engineer," "AI will change everything" — usually contains a real signal, but loses precision in the abstraction. Each essay works through the conditions under which the advice holds, where it breaks down, and what to do at the boundary.

Every essay is grounded in sources — usually books on engineering leadership, organizational behavior, or career strategy. The bibliography is in the sidebar of the reading list so you can check the thinking yourself.

Written by Robert on his own time. New essays roughly monthly.