Functionally Imperative

Neal Stephenson's Substack. Mostly about the intersection of tech and art, with some excursions, digressions, and tangents. I will talk about projects I'm actively working on. I have a personal financial interest in some of those.

Thoughts about software engineering I can't keep in my head. Too ephemeral for blog posts, too long for social media. It's the messages I'd send if you'd asked me what's on my mind.

All things observability

I write mostly about Python, and other topics that come up in the course of my programming and writing work. New posts on Thursdays, and some Tuesdays as well.

Dirty tricks for doing good

Research and perspectives on developer productivity.

synthesized braindumps

Explain complex systems with simple terms, from the authors of the best-selling system design book series. Join over 1,000,000 friendly readers.

The world's most famous whistleblower writes from exile on the intersection of technology, humanity, and power.

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cool but rude

Distributed systems, databases, and information security

Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?

Eclectic analysis. Infrequent posts on whatever is on my mind. Recently that includes drug development, skiing, machine learning, and excellence. I also seem to enjoy debunking poorly reasoned academic papers.

Thoughts on engineering, startups, and AI.

Where product, data science, and analytics intersect.

A weekly advice column about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career.

Let's us reflect deeply on leadership.