Leadership & teams
Why difficult experiences haven’t made me cynical about leadership
The everyday choices that make leadership matter, especially when doing the right thing has a cost.
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People, decisions,
and the work.
Notes on leading teams and building useful software, from the people behind Blutek Media.
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Inside the product
Five decisions, three priorities: inside Job Challenge
How a short restaurant shift turns competing priorities into choices, consequences, and an explainable ending.
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Inside the product
Car Deal Check: making a calculation explain itself
Follow a worked deal through trade equity, itemized charges, worksheet differences, and a repeatable payment estimate.
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Low-code engineering
Low-code architecture: draw the boundaries before the screens
A worked purchase-request example covering business rules, permissions, integrations, and the release plan.
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AI planning
Before the AI prototype: a project readiness checklist
Define a useful first task, inspect the source material, and decide how to recognize an answer that needs human review.
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Inside the implementation
Making this journal faster without stripping out the design
How we reduced the Blutek homepage's measured mobile LCP from 2.6 seconds to about 1.4 seconds through image sizing, HTTP/2, compression, and caching, without replacing the design.
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All our articles and guides, organized by article date, newest first. Explore software, product decisions, and the people behind the work.
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September 2026
- Healthcare chatbots: semantic search, RAG, or both?
- When not to use OutSystems for AI, and what to do instead
- A useful chatbot should know when to ask for help
- Making room for the duck: the rules behind a packing puzzle
- When good employees stop challenging leadership
- Why Car Deal Check keeps the math outside AI
- Why difficult experiences haven’t made me cynical about leadership
- Five decisions, three priorities: inside Job Challenge
- Car Deal Check: making a calculation explain itself
- Low-code architecture: draw the boundaries before the screens
- Before the AI prototype: a project readiness checklist
August 2026
Technical writing
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Jason's guide to role-based access in OutSystems walks through the RoleShield components and implementation choices.
RoleShield: A Flexible Approach to RBAC in OutSystems