From Code to Systems: The Three Levels of Thinking
Why many architectural debates fail before they start — not because of disagreement, but because participants are reasoning at different conceptual levels without realizing it.
Architecture
Degrees of Freedom of a System
A way to think about flexibility as a structural property rather than a personality trait, and why systems lose their ability to change long before anyone notices.
Architecture Should Grow, Not Mutate
How irreversible decisions quietly accumulate, why “refactoring the whole thing” is rarely possible, and what it means for architecture to gain mass over time.
Coupling Is Not Evil — It’s a Commitment
Why eliminating coupling is neither realistic nor desirable, and how the real architectural mistake is failing to recognize which commitments you are making permanent.