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Long, first-person, opinionated. What the job actually feels like, written without the vendor gloss.

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Culture

Reporting, analysis and perspective on Culture.

Culture2 November 2026

Nonnative Accent Bias Hits the Leadership Half of an Engineer’s Job

Technical credibility crosses borders and cultural credibility starts from zero. A response to Dmitrii Sidorenko on why evaluators read a comprehension gap as weak leadership.

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Culture17 October 2026

AI Writing Policy: Which Opinions a Human Must Write

Personal and professional opinions need a human author. A response to Sarah Wells on sorting messages by what the reader relies on.

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On Substack and LinkedIn.

Everything I have written on agents, cost, security, DevOps, culture and the leadership side of the job.

01CultureThe three things that actually drive engineering culture (and it's not ping pong tables)LinkedIn02CultureThe Best Engineering Teams Do Not Document. They Build Systems That Remember.LinkedIn