Welcome to the Midnight Thinker Newsletter
The blog now has a newsletter. Here is what to expect.
Date
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The Log
recent entries, most-recent first
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On the Desk
books currently shaping the writing
- A Philosophy of Software DesignREADING NOW
- Notes on Being a ManREADING NOW
- The Art of LeadershipJUST FINISHED
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The Author
about the thinker
Rob Cataneo is a software engineer and engineering team lead with fifteen years of practice, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spends most of his working life inside the messy, high‑stakes decisions that come with building distributed systems at scale — architecture tradeoffs, technical vision, and the human side of leading engineering teams.
Midnight Thinker is his notebook made public — a place to work through ideas in software engineering, leadership, and the books that won’t leave him alone. No particular schedule, no particular audience. Just thinking out loud, done properly.
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Constellation
topics, sized by frequency