Engineering

I heard Satya Nadella describe this week on the All-In podcast how LinkedIn has been collapsing product management, UX, and engineering roles into a single “full-stack builder” role. The framing was optimistic: AI reduces construction costs and speeds up delivery. At a surface level, this makes sense. AI dramatically accelerates prototyping, implementation, and iteration. In many environments, the traditional separation between PM, design, and engineering really does introduce friction that slows learning and execution. ...

Early in my career, coming from industrial engineering, I learned a simple rule that has shaped the way I think about software development ever since. Software may look abstract, creative, fluid. But underneath, it behaves like a production system. The best articulation of this idea appears in The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, one of the most influential books I have ever read. In production, every system revolves around three outputs you can influence: ...