I'm Matt Wood, and this is For Your Information. A live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.
An interactive visualization exploring foundational papers and concepts in distributed systems, with controls to explore different parameters and system behaviors.
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing WorkBoth address the craft of senior engineering practice - distributed systems classics inform the technical judgment staff engineers need to read system signals and identify meaningful work
Before Pixels: Modular Industrial DashboardsBoth treat historical technical systems as worth studying on their own terms—distributed systems classics and pre-pixel dashboards share a 'learn from prior art' framing for interaction/system design