Notes on building useful software and improving how organizations work. For tech workers, lessons in engineering, communication, business, and creating career opportunities.
For Tech Workers
How I used YouTube, Google, a simple phone script, and a weekly outreach goal to land my first $200 website client before working as a professional developer.
Field Note 002 · 8 min read
For Tech Workers
How I went from struggling to find work to earning money building websites, becoming a professional engineer, experiencing layoffs, and understanding why nobody should have complete control over your ability to earn a living.
Field Note 001 · 9 min read
For Organizations
What two years of building a maternal healthcare platform taught me about changing requirements, rework, and technical leadership.
Technical Leadership · 15 min read
For Tech Workers
The first bug in a product often appears in an assumption—not in code. A reading-game idea shows how abstraction begins between an idea and reality.
Software Architecture · 12 min read
For Organizations
A doula assignment is not a completed handoff until the family knows who is supporting them, when services will begin, and what happens next.
Maternal Care · 3 min read
For Organizations · For Tech Workers
A systems architecture perspective on why designing software reveals how organizations actually operate, exposes workflow bottlenecks, and creates opportunities for automation.
Software Architecture · 5 min read
For Organizations
Doula assignment starts the care workflow. Learn how assignment visibility affects capacity, documentation, billing readiness, insurance reimbursement, and reporting quality.
Maternal Care · 3 min read
For Organizations
Many growing service-based organizations need to identify operational bottlenecks, calculate lost capacity, and improve systems before investing in more technology.
Operations Insight · 3 min read
For Tech Workers
Why some people build features while others build operational systems, frameworks, and companies.
Operational Systems Thinking · 5 min read