On the lucidity of working in tech.
Essays by Domenico Giordano. Twenty years across a tier-1 consulting firm and in-house at regulated institutions. In parallel, a solo founder of tech products. Writing from both ends, without demonising or sweetening.
- 01
You can change a behavior, not a character
For someone who lives work as a thing that gives meaning, the hardest lesson is accepting that some people you don't move, and that it isn't defiance, it's who they are. On a failure as a manager and the line between behavior and character.
A · Management7 min read - 02
Siebel already did it
In 2006 I was programming inside Siebel, a platform that shipped by default the architectural patterns we now chase with three separate tools. On what gets lost when we rebuild from scratch or let an AI generate the code: not the pattern, but the memory of the problem it solved.
B · Architecture6 min read - 03
The trust you receive is a debt
When someone trusts you before the proof, the risk passes from their hands to yours. On the weight of trust received, and the doubt that never closes. Second of two pieces on trust.
A · Management7 min read - 04
Trust doesn't arrive with you
When you join a new team, you assume your good faith arrives before you do. It doesn't. On building trust in a place that decided, before it met you, that you would fail, and why only a price you pay yourself moves anyone who has been burned before.
A · Management5 min read - 05
My homelab is not for reliability
My homelab has worse uptime than the €17 server that runs my actual product. I keep it anyway, because reliability was never the point. It is the zero-stakes place where I rehearse the operational disciplines that matter where it counts.
C · Cloud13 min read
New essays, when there are new essays.
No schedule to keep, no sequence to drip, nothing to sell you. I write when a piece is ready, which is roughly monthly, and this is the way to hear about it without depending on an algorithm.