The Architecture of Regret

Why Reversibility Is the Most Underpriced Quality in Software

Jul 9 • Chris "Woody" Woodruff

June 2026

The Status Architecture: Why Complexity Is the Currency of Technical Prestige and Who Pays the Bill

The conference talk was excellent.

Jun 16 • Chris "Woody" Woodruff

May 2026

Could Your Smartphone Detect a Disease That Kills More People Than Most Cancers?

Researchers at UC San Diego are using the same light sensor in your smartwatch to detect peripheral artery disease from a toe signal before patients…

May 31 • Kym McNicholas

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The Bill Your Body Sends in Your 50s: CBS Sports Anchor Vern Glenn on Type 2 Diabetes, Golf, and Playing the Long Game

Vern Glenn of CBS KPIX on staying active, managing Type 2 diabetes, and why he's putting Bay Area sports legends on a golf course June 8th.

May 31 • Kym McNicholas

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A Silent Killer Unless It’s Found Early: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Phil McKinney ran HP's innovation engine and now leads the global cable industry's R&D lab. He's done all of it with a genetic heart condition that…

May 14 • Kym McNicholas

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Conway's Revenge

How Your Org Chart Keeps Writing Code When Nobody Is Watching

May 12 • Chris "Woody" Woodruff

The Governance Trap: How Architecture Review Boards Manufacture the Complexity They Were Built to Prevent

The board that was built to catch over-engineering became its most reliable sponsor.

May 1 • Chris "Woody" Woodruff

April 2026

When Doctors Refuse to Give Up: The Extraordinary Lengths Physicians Go to Save Life and Limb

Inside the fight to reduce amputations, save hearts, and find the doctors willing to do whatever it takes.

Apr 27 • Kym McNicholas

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What if bypass surgery no longer meant cracking open your chest?

A team from the NIH and Emory University just performed the world’s first fully catheter-based coronary bypass. Here’s what that means for the future of…

Apr 16 • Kym McNicholas

39:44

The System Nobody Designed

Why every reasonable decision adds up to a system nobody wanted

Apr 14 • Chris "Woody" Woodruff

The Tragedy of the Cloud Commons

Why Shared Infrastructure Gets Over-Consumed

Apr 7 • Chris "Woody" Woodruff

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March 2026

Technical Debt Has an Interest Rate

And You’re Not Calculating It

Mar 27 • Chris "Woody" Woodruff