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Why Slow Hiring Loses Your Best Candidates
Leadership
July 12, 20268 min read

Why Slow Hiring Loses Your Best Candidates

Why slow hiring loses candidates: the best are off the market in ~10 days, but the average process takes 30-45. The math, and how to fix it.

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Roberto Espinoza
Parkinson's Law: Work Expands to Fill the Time
Leadership
July 12, 20268 min read

Parkinson's Law: Work Expands to Fill the Time

Parkinson's Law: work expands to fill the time available. Why generous deadlines make software slower, and how to use tighter timeboxes well.

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Roberto Espinoza
Code Churn Predicts Where Bugs Will Be
Engineering Culture
July 12, 20268 min read

Code Churn Predicts Where Bugs Will Be

Code churn predicts defects: Microsoft's Nagappan & Ball found relative churn predicts fault-prone code with 89% accuracy. How to use it.

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Roberto Espinoza
Innovation Time: Why Slack Pays Off
Leadership
July 12, 20268 min read

Innovation Time: Why Slack Pays Off

Innovation time: 3M's 15% and Google's 20% show structured slack drives real products. Why, when it works, and the honest caveats.

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Roberto Espinoza
The Technical Debt Quadrant
Engineering Culture
July 12, 20268 min read

The Technical Debt Quadrant

The technical debt quadrant: Martin Fowler splits debt into deliberate vs inadvertent and prudent vs reckless. Which kinds to take on, and which to avoid.

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Roberto Espinoza
Sleep and Engineering Performance
Engineering Culture
July 12, 20268 min read

Sleep and Engineering Performance

Sleep and engineering performance: research shows 17-19 hours awake impairs you like a 0.05% BAC. Why crunch and sleep debt are a code-quality risk.

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Roberto Espinoza
Error Budgets and SLOs: Reliability as a Budget
Engineering Culture
July 12, 20268 min read

Error Budgets and SLOs: Reliability as a Budget

Error budgets and SLOs: Google's SRE approach turns reliability into a budget you can spend, ending the features-vs-uptime fight. How it works.

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Roberto Espinoza
Choose Boring Technology
Leadership
July 12, 20268 min read

Choose Boring Technology

Choose boring technology: Dan McKinley's idea that every team has ~3 innovation tokens. Why spending them on novel infra usually backfires.

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Roberto Espinoza
Chesterton's Fence: Understand It Before You Delete It
Engineering Culture
July 12, 20268 min read

Chesterton's Fence: Understand It Before You Delete It

Chesterton's Fence in engineering: understand why code exists before you delete it. The principle that saves you from removing load-bearing weirdness.

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Roberto Espinoza
Measuring Developer Productivity: The SPACE Framework
Leadership
July 12, 20268 min read

Measuring Developer Productivity: The SPACE Framework

The SPACE framework: developer productivity can't be captured in one metric. The five dimensions to measure instead, from Nicole Forsgren's research.

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Roberto Espinoza
The Sunk-Cost Fallacy: Knowing When to Kill a Project
Leadership
July 12, 20268 min read

The Sunk-Cost Fallacy: Knowing When to Kill a Project

The sunk-cost fallacy: 'we've already invested so much' keeps doomed projects alive. The research, and the one question that cuts through it.

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Roberto Espinoza
Conway's Law: Your Org Chart Becomes Your Code
Leadership
July 6, 20268 min read

Conway's Law: Your Org Chart Becomes Your Code

Conway's Law: a Harvard study confirmed that products mirror the org that builds them. Why your team structure is really an architecture choice.

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Roberto Espinoza
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