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career-lessons
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On 'Expert Generalist' — an influence on how I describe my work
14 min readWhy I describe myself as an Expert Generalist, what Fowler, Joshi and Venkatraman's framework actually says, and the six traits anchored in twenty-five years of career stories.
Learn the domain before you design the abstraction
10 min readPattern-driven architecture only works when you've internalised the domain first. Three career moments where the abstraction got better only after the domain understanding did.