Focused on fintech, sharing experiences in financial services, architecture technology, and R&D management.
The article reveals non‑technical traps in architecture governance—deliberate information hiding and omission of key stakeholders—that can undermine technical reviews, and it offers practical mitigation by involving directly related domain experts.
This article shares a step‑by‑step framework for creating architecture planning PPTs that emphasize a clear logical backbone, slide‑level objectives, quantified business and technical value, unified terminology, strategic alignment, technical standards, gap analysis, and an implementation plan, helping leaders without domain expertise quickly grasp and trust the proposal.
After a senior’s harsh rejection of a seemingly sound technical proposal, the author realized that writing for outsiders requires explicit context, clear business value, and logical consistency, highlighting how mismatched detail, hidden assumptions, and poor structure can turn a well‑intended document into an unreadable ‘tome’.
The article examines whether software architects need to keep coding, arguing that the decision depends on an organization’s focus, the architect’s value goals, and the need to combine business insight, development management, and architectural expertise for lasting impact.
This article explores the boundaries and pitfalls of first‑principles thinking, shows how analogies and big‑data mindsets complement it, and illustrates its power through real‑world cases such as Amazon’s simple rules, SpaceX’s Hyperloop cost cuts, and Fujifilm’s pivot from film to skincare.
The article explores how first‑principles reasoning—distinguishing inductive from deductive methods, applying MECE analysis, and using the 5‑Why technique—enables deep problem‑solving and breakthrough innovation, illustrated with examples from black‑swan events, Euclidean geometry, and Elon Musk’s engineering breakthroughs.
The article explores how over‑familiarity with buzzwords creates a psychological immunity that hinders deep learning, uses the physics concept of escape velocity as a metaphor for wealth freedom, introduces a multi‑dimensional thinking model, and shows how Elon Musk’s first‑principles approach drives breakthrough innovations in batteries and manufacturing.
This article outlines a comprehensive, step‑by‑step framework for establishing a high‑availability system in large‑scale banking IT, covering goal definition, logical architecture, service classification, key activity identification, capability upgrades, monitoring, emergency‑response asset creation, technical debt tracking, and periodic post‑mortem redesign.
The article uses a Jin Yong novel analogy to argue that while early‑stage engineers can focus on coding, senior architects must cultivate a collaborative mindset, align solutions with organizational constraints, and prioritize business value over technical purity to succeed.
The article argues that arrogance, not lack of knowledge, hinders individuals from seizing AI opportunities, outlines four psychological barriers—unseen, undervalued, incomprehensible, and too late—and provides practical steps such as prompt engineering, RAG, fine‑tuning, and AI agents to actively engage with the AI wave.
