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Embracing simplicity in your engineering team

The prevention of inherent, project-lifecycle-induced, and self-inflicted complexity
January 20, 2021

Our work drives complexity. Complexity drives stress and anxiety. How can we prevent this cycle from occurring at the root cause?

In 2015, after years of constant back pain, my wife convinced me to visit a doctor. I was 27 years old and considered myself to be a healthy person, so I had been ignoring the pain. On that doctor visit, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease: Ankylosing Spondylitis

The shock of the diagnosis meant that I didn’t ask my doctor any of the million questions that were swimming around my head, but as a software engineer, I was used to looking for answers online – so, I turned to the internet.

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