Landing a commercial aircraft looks deceptively simple from inside the terminal. The plane descends, touches the runway, and taxis to the gate. But a safe landing depends on preparation that happened long before the wheels touched down. The runway has been cleared. Weather and wind conditions have been assessed. Air traffic control has coordinated the … Continued
Most city maps show what is easiest to see. They indicate roads, landmarks, neighborhoods, and destinations to help travelers understand where things are located in relation to one another. But anyone trying to modernize, or really even manage, the London Underground would need a very different kind of map. Transit maps, on the other hand, … Continued
Remember the childhood game of Telephone? The outcome is predictably unpredictable. The message starts clearly enough. But with each handoff, small changes accumulate. A word gets misheard. Someone fills in a gap. By the time the message reaches the final person, it may barely resemble the original. For a long time, enterprise software tolerated a … Continued
Most AI projects do not fail because the technology falls short. Rather, they fail because they succeed too quickly. Someone on the team opens Lovable, Cursor, V0, Replit, or another AI development tool and, within days, walks into a stakeholder review with a working application. The interface looks polished. Data flows and the core functionalities … Continued
For decades, software development has run on a critical, yet unwritten, assumption: we trust the people writing the code. We trust that changes are intentional, scoped, and understood. We trust that when something breaks, someone in the loop knows where to look and how to fix it. That trust has quietly underpinned everything from code … Continued
At 30, I’ve spent more of my life as a student than as a “real person”. After a 9 year break from academia, I decided it was time to try being both, enrolling in a Graphic Design course at Portland Community College this spring. While I don’t foresee myself breaking out the T-square in my … Continued
