From Code to System: Flipping the Switch to an Engineering Mindset
Today I was reviewing a recent performance improvement for one of our systems. Part of the work involved implementing caching for a segment of the process. When I asked how…
The Real Challenge in Business: Leadership
Many businesses struggle and fail not because of markets, products, or technology—but because of leadership. How leaders think, decide, and act shapes everything: strategy, execution, and culture. The Issues The…
Lean for Software, Part I — The Hidden Waste of Lost Focus
This is the first in a series exploring how Lean principles are often misunderstood in software organizations.We begin with the most abused concept of all: “Eliminate Waste.” The Intent Behind…
First Principles: The Power of a Mindset
I saw a blog post talking about the first principles and find it interesting, here is the excerpt 第一性原理：改變思維方式的力量 The first rule of building wealth is to accumulation, not to…
What AI Really Is — and What It Isn’t
At a Vancouver tech meetup, I watched a “turnkey AI” demo promise to generate a full chess.com clone from a short prompt—and fail completely. It looked real, but nothing worked. That moment made me question why so many still think software engineering is just coding. Like asking AI to write *The Lord of the Rings* from a paragraph, it misses the point. Software isn’t written—it’s *built* through design, iteration, and judgment. AI won’t replace engineers; it amplifies those who understand the fundamentals.