Management on A Blog for the Uninitialized

Social Acceptance of Large Scale Changes

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:46:37 -0700

I started reading through a book posted online called Software Engineering at Google, written in March of 2020 (truly a fateful time in all of our lives).

It’s an O’Reilly book, too, which you can purchase here if you’re interested (affiliate link).

In particular, I’ve started with chapter 22, which discusses “Large Scale Changes” or LSC’s for short. The intention behind it is to discuss how Google’s monorepo works when it comes to making changes that span across multiple projects.

Thoughts on Pushing Back on Management

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:43:50 -0800

I recently learned about a man by the name of Roger Boisjoly, who, in the 80’s, was involved in the Challenger shuttle project. In 2012, NPR put together some information about him and his involvement in the project.

If you’re unfamiliar, this was the shuttle that blew up on its way up out of our atmosphere. I remember less of the actual event myself, but was well aware of it because my elementary school was named after Christa McAuliffe. She was to be the first teacher in space.