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Mentorship as a Debt, Not a Favor
You owe the company nothing. That was never the whole accounting
Jul 26
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Michael Lawrence
Same Question, Two Answers
The first tool on your desk that won't repeat itself, and what that should change about how far you trust it.
Jul 19
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Michael Lawrence
The Post-Mortem Isn't About the Bug
The outage was a missing index. The hard part was the sentence after.
Jul 12
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Michael Lawrence
The One Feature Built Different
A stable system, a decade of experience, and one decision to be interesting.
Jul 5
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Michael Lawrence
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June 2026
The Compiler Doesn't Care What You Think
The oldest idea in Stoicism is running in your CI pipeline.
Jun 28
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Michael Lawrence
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The Two-Second Decision
AI isn't the villain. The order is everything.
Jun 21
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Michael Lawrence
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Most of Your Life Is the Boring Work
The Emptiest Days Are the Ones That Felt Full
Jun 14
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Michael Lawrence
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The Fraud Was the Confidence
The doubt you feel now is the most accurate read of the work you've ever had.
Jun 7
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Michael Lawrence
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May 2026
The Discipline of Doing Nothing
Rest and avoidance feel exactly the same. Telling them apart is the discipline.
May 31
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Michael Lawrence
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You're Getting Better at the Wrong Thing
After 25 years, I'm convinced the craft problem and the character problem are the same problem.
May 24
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Michael Lawrence
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Humans Are Bottlenecks. That's the Point.
Friction isn't the enemy of quality. It's how quality happens.
May 17
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Michael Lawrence
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We Broke Software
How we learned to ship shit and call it delivery
May 3
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Michael Lawrence
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