ShiftLefter

Writing

Essays on quality as a dimension, not a phase.

  1. Your System Is Not Your Application

    Your application is the part you test. Your system is everything a user crosses on the way to their goal - and much of it ships unchecked.

  2. The Pony Test

    Hand a blinded agent nothing but your marketing pitch, ask it to derive your product, and grade what it imagines. A field note from the first run I’ve done.