{"id":491,"date":"2026-10-28T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/writing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:59:57","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leadership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/the-strategic-pause\/\">The Strategic Pause<\/a><\/strong><br>Why the most important decisions often come from knowing when to stop and think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/the-bus-policy\/\">The Bus Policy<\/a><\/strong><br>If your most critical engineer left tomorrow, how long would it take to recover?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/when-to-kill-a-project\/\">When to Kill a Project<\/a><\/strong><br>Recognizing when a project should end is one of the hardest calls in leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/values-that-actually-work\/\">Values That Actually Work<\/a><\/strong><br>A simple test for whether an organization&#039;s values drive real decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/the-long-view\/\">The Long View<\/a><\/strong><br>What 70,000 years of human history can teach about perspective in leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Engineering notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/beyond-polling-the-future-of-real-time-infrastructure\/\">Using MQTT as a Wake-Up Signal<\/a><\/strong><br>Why we replaced constant device polling with a lightweight wake-up signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/building-a-unified-identity-source-of-truth\/\">Building a Unified Identity Source of Truth<\/a><\/strong><br>Pulling scattered user identities into one source of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership The Strategic PauseWhy the most important decisions often come from knowing when to stop and think. The Bus PolicyIf your most critical engineer left tomorrow, how long would it take to recover? When to Kill a ProjectRecognizing when a project should end is one of the hardest calls in leadership. Values That Actually WorkA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-491","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaysonbrush.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}