Notes from an Australian engineering leader. Things I'm building, teams I'm leading, habits I'm creating, and hobbies I enjoy.https://lswith.io/en-auhttps://lswith.io/posts/finding-my-values/https://lswith.io/posts/finding-my-values/How I used Claude to find my values, why naming them gave me permission to stop caring about everything, and the site I built so you can do the same.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://lswith.io/posts/how-ai-helped-me-give-a-better-talk/https://lswith.io/posts/how-ai-helped-me-give-a-better-talk/How I used Claude to structure a talk around Patrick Winston's 'How to Speak', and why the method, not the model, is what made it land.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://lswith.io/posts/why-i-dropped-prds-for-shapeup/https://lswith.io/posts/why-i-dropped-prds-for-shapeup/Why I dropped spec-driven development for ShapeUp, and how splitting decision clarity in two changed how we ship.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://lswith.io/posts/how-i-use-sunsama-to-manage-my-time/https://lswith.io/posts/how-i-use-sunsama-to-manage-my-time/How I landed on Sunsama after Claude and Morgen didn't stick, and why the daily plan and shutdown ritual mattered more than the tool.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://lswith.io/posts/how-i-approached-showing-your-work/https://lswith.io/posts/how-i-approached-showing-your-work/How I used AI to actually apply a book to my life, and the public posture that fell out of it.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://lswith.io/posts/designing-teams-for-effective-software-delivery/https://lswith.io/posts/designing-teams-for-effective-software-delivery/The four fundamental team types from Team Topologies, stream-aligned, enabling, complicated-subsystem, and platform, and how to design team boundaries deliberately instead of reactively.Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://lswith.io/posts/how-teams-communicate-and-interact/https://lswith.io/posts/how-teams-communicate-and-interact/The three modes of team interaction from Team Topologies, collaboration, X-as-a-Service, and facilitating, and the anti-patterns that emerge when team interactions aren't consciously designed.Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://lswith.io/posts/understanding-the-constitution-of-knowledge/https://lswith.io/posts/understanding-the-constitution-of-knowledge/A summary of Jonathan Rauch's case for the reality-based community, the norms that keep truth-seeking honest, and why epistemic chaos is the modern threat.Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://lswith.io/posts/why-teams-matter-over-individuals/https://lswith.io/posts/why-teams-matter-over-individuals/Why team structure and dynamics matter more than individual brilliance, and how small, stable, long-lived teams with clear ownership produce better software.Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://lswith.io/posts/infrastructure-as-an-enabler-not-a-differentiator/https://lswith.io/posts/infrastructure-as-an-enabler-not-a-differentiator/Infrastructure should support innovation, not be it. The case for boring technology, vendor-supported solutions, and protecting the innovation budget for customer-facing work.Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://lswith.io/posts/rethinking-continuous-delivery/https://lswith.io/posts/rethinking-continuous-delivery/Why centring the release process around a build artifact gets you speed, simplicity, and traceability, and why infrastructure delivery is a different beast that deserves its own pipeline.Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT