Articles

• Amor Fati: Why You Shouldn't Regret Anything

  March 7, 2025

  On Nietzsche's eternal recurrence, the Zen farmer parable, and why every decision you made was the right one. A framework for letting go of regret.

• Why Software Estimates Are Useless

  February 10, 2025

  Estimates become deadlines, deadlines create overwork, overwork produces bad software. The #NoEstimates case from experience leading teams at Volkswagen's EV charging network.

• After 10+ Years of Coding, I Rediscovered the Magic

  December 15, 2024

  How integrating AI tools like Claude and Cursor into my development workflow took me from 10x to 100x productivity, and brought back the joy of building.

• Five Things That Will Give Your Startup an Unfair Competitive Advantage

  September 10, 2024

  Engineering practices that make startups fast: focus, customer centricity, team empowerment, boring technology, and modern software practices.

• Game Days: How to Prepare Engineers for Production Incidents

  June 20, 2024

  How we organized Game Days for 51 engineers at Elli (Volkswagen Group), uncovering 59 infrastructure issues and building a culture of operational readiness.