Load-Bearing People
Uses the 2016 left-pad npm incident to define 'load-bearing people' and the fragility they mask.
Mike FisherSeptember 2026
78/100
2026-09-06 · 7 pieces
Reading issue 1.
A selection to read and return to.
How Leadership Anxiety Derails Transformation
Draws on a four-year, 760-hour ethnographic study of how leadership anxiety derails transformation.
MIT Sloan Management ReviewSeptember 2026
Git at any scale
Traces the architectural decisions, including a three-phase commit and Spokes, behind Git hosting at scale.
Programming DigestAugust 2026
Impact, agency, and taste
Argues that agency, leverage, and taste set the most effective engineers apart more than raw skill.
Ben KuhnApril 2025
Creative library
Catalogs a personal set of recurring problem-solving techniques distilled from clever solutions.
Slava Akhmechet (defmacro)November 2019
Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems
Explains how identifying the single highest-leverage question reframes complex problems.
coda.iofrom the editor’s archive
How to tell if you have product/market fit
Explains how to recognize product/market fit by turning gut feeling into measurable signals.
medium.comvia Sachin Rekhi’s PM canon
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