Stories by KentBeck

Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots

Accounts/transactions enable you to replay history

Paint Drip People

More What, Less How: Coding with LLMs (but also every technical revolution ever)

I chose “empirical” to describe my style of software design

How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years

Software design also saves money by discouraging errors

Accountability is not blame (but easily becomes blame)

Beyond Extreme Programming: Scaling to 1000s by reducing team dependencies

Boss' Dilemma: Taking Responsibility Signals Cooperation

Responsibility: Consequences Flow Towards Power

Programmers Underpaid? Labor vs. Capital

Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state

Tune Software Development for Rate of Change, Not Rate of Progress

Work/life balance should be difficult

Fixed equity grants become toxic to hard work in later growth

Background Work: Establishing credibility by indulging engineering curiosity

A Death-Aware Career Plan

How Meditation Works for Me

Meta-meta-cognition: reflecting on mind-mapping my thinking habits

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