Short essays, written from inside the work.

Field Notes is where we write down what we’ve learned. Most of it comes from inside specific engagements — moments where something failed in an interesting way, or a decision turned out to matter more than it looked, or we changed our minds about a practice we’d held for years. The notes are short on purpose. We’d rather publish twelve careful essays a year than fifty hasty ones.

We write for engineers, technical leaders, and the people who hire them. Some posts are technical. Some are about how engineering teams work in practice. Some are about the strange parts of building software inside organisations where software wasn’t always the point. We don’t always know in advance which kind a piece will be.