On the trail and at the terminal, the questions are the same: what do you control, what can you carry, and how do you move when the conditions turn?
Essays from the trail and the terminal. Where overlanding becomes a lens for leading software teams — and for the quieter work of figuring out what actually matters.
Read the notes →A curated shelf of books, gear, and tools that have earned their place. Philosophy, engineering leadership, and the equipment that doesn't fail you when you're far out.
View resources →A decade-plus leading engineering orgs at AWS scale — platforms, fraud controls, AI/ML decisioning. If you're building something worth building, let's talk.
Learn more →Three miles past cell service, with a sheared diff bolt and no recovery points, you learn exactly what your checklist was missing. The post-mortem writes itself differently out there.
The best thinkers didn't optimize for elegance. They optimized for what holds under pressure. There's a framework in that for how we choose our stack — and what we stop chasing.
Overloading the front axle and overloading your team with senior engineers have the same failure mode: you lose steering. How I think about team composition.
