Strategic Signals
Clear signals for leaders navigating complex
systems and consequential decisions.
These essays explore patterns that surface repeatedly in system design, organizational scale, and decision-making: between and beside real engagements.
AI Is a Force Multiplier, If You Know Where to Apply It
It’s common to frame AI discussions in cautionary terms, but I believe that often misses the larger strategic opportunity: AI is best understood as a force multiplier. AI can increase clarity, improve discipline, and drive intent, but it can also expose their absence just as quickly
Feature-driven vs Capability-driven companies
A feature is something you can point to on a roadmap: a button, a screen, a workflow, a launch announcement. Features are tangible, easy to justify, and easy to celebrate.
A capability is an underlying system that makes many features possible over time. When done well capabilities reduce friction, speed up decision-making, and make future work cheaper and safer.
The Quiet Advantage of Being Technical and Strategic
The rarest skill in tech isn’t coding or strategy…it’s being fluent in both, and knowing when to bring each to the foreground. Most leaders develop depth in one area early in their careers and then continue strengthening and reinforcing that skill as they move up.
Why Engineers Should Think Like CFOs
Engineering culture trains people to optimize for correctness, performance, and elegance. CFOs optimize for predictability, durability, and margin.
Metered infrastructure, shared services, and operational overhead mean that technical decisions now directly shape financial outcomes, even when there is no explicit per-transaction fee.