A little over a year ago, I wrote that the build vs. buy debate was the wrong frame — that the real question was how to orchestrate the right blend of built, bought, and integrated capabilities to deliver value faster. I still believe that. Composability and platform thinking haven’t gone anywhere.
A while back, I wrote about building a modern engineering career ladder — the competency dimensions, the dual-track progression, the principle that growth should be behavior-based, not time-based. I still stand behind all of it.
But I also have to be honest: if your career ladder was written before 2025 and hasn’t been touched since, it’s already out of date. Not because the fundamentals changed — they didn’t. Because the job changed.
A few years ago, I wrote about scaling an engineering team from 6 to over 100 — the lessons learned, the hard pivots, and the patterns that held up under real pressure. That article was grounded in a specific kind of scaling: more people, more process, more structure.
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