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Articles on decision culture, team dynamics, and building better engineering organizations.

How My Last Product Died (And How DecisionLog Was Born)

Failed twice. Lost real money. Learned a ton. Now building something that solves a problem I literally created.

Decision Logging for Dev Teams: How to Stop Losing Knowledge When People Leave

When a senior developer leaves, their decisions leave with them. Decision logging captures that knowledge before it walks out the door.

The Cost of Tribal Knowledge

Why dev teams lose $200k/year to decisions that disappear into Slack threads. When only the senior engineer knows why you chose async, you pay 20 hours per new hire.

Building a Decision Culture

How to shift from "we decided this" to "here's why we decided this." A step-by-step guide for teams that want to make better decisions faster.

Onboard 3x Faster

Real numbers from teams using decision logs to cut onboarding time by 75%. Your new hire stops asking "why?" and starts shipping in week one.

The Hidden Cost of Rework

Teams that don't track decisions re-debate the same choices every quarter. We measured it: this costs 40 hours per team per year.

Making Decisions Asynchronously

Remote teams need async decision-making. But async decisions need async documentation. Here's how to do both.

Scaling Decision-Making

When your team grows from 5 to 50 people, decision-making breaks. This is how we fixed it, and how you can too.