Scope of Work: Jobs, Salaries & Tech Stack (2026)

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Blog 2 months ago

Scope Creep, 2026-07-14

A PSA: I'm pleased to announce that the SOW Reading Group is reading Brian Potter's The Origins of Efficiency as our next book! We'll be discussing it on Thursdays at noon ET from now through August, with a group conversation with Brian when we finish the

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Blog 3 months ago

An Incomplete Accounting of What I'm Reading

My coffee table is kind of a mess, the number of books on it having become ostentatious over the past couple of months. Of course there's House, which I'm enjoying reading with the SOW Reading Group, but that's just the tip. Indeed there are dozens of tex

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Blog 3 months ago

Scope Creep, 2026-06-25

Recently I had cause to purchase a bag of perlite and realized that I had no idea what the stuff was. Perlite is a mineral, which we mine from the ground and then process in different ways for different uses. Agricultural or "expanded" perlite, the kind y

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Blog 3 months ago

Red Rocks

At first I furrow my brow.

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Blog 3 months ago

The Hoop

I can see the basketball hoop now, through my window, on this warm Wednesday evening in June. I walk underneath it almost every day. It belongs to someone on my block, and is installed on their property. But it faces the sidewalk, away from their house, a

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