Architectural Thinking

Architectural thinking focuses on how experienced architects reason about systems — balancing trade-offs, constraints, risks, and long-term impact.

What You’ll Find Here

  • Decision-making frameworks
  • Trade-off analysis and reasoning
  • Architectural philosophy and opinion
  • Cost, complexity, and risk thinking

Representative Essays

How Senior Architects Actually Think

Understanding decision heuristics beyond diagrams.

Why Most System Design Diagrams Lie

What diagrams hide about failure and operations.