Charles Emary

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Fall of the House of Echelon - Revelation

Fall of the House of Echelon - The Fall

Fall of the House of Echelon - Wastelands

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Global Program Manager | AWS Cloud Architect | Engineering Manager | Technical Project Management Colorado • …

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Two Sides of a Coin: Why Tai Chi's Health Comes From the Martial

Where Tai Chi Earns Its Reputation There is a common misconception about Tai Chi and the health benefits it …

Chen Family Taijiquan: Lineage and the Branches of Taiji

Nearly every style of taijiquan practiced today traces its roots to a single village in Henan Province and to …

The Editor Was Always Outside You

We’re in the middle of some fairly spirited debates right now, in different corners of different …

The Certificate I Couldn't Buy, and the Focus I Got Back

I want to talk about technical certifications. The AWS, Azure, GCP, Claude kind, the badges we all chase to …

Garbage In, Garbage Out: What I Found When I Cleaned Up My Household Budget Data

Every data project has the same shape. There’s the interesting part: the analysis, the dashboard, the …

The Norwegian 4×4: The Workout I Didn't See Coming

A few weeks ago I got together with my martial arts instructor and longtime friend, Master Martin Kelly. We …

Updates to hate, the Open Source Tool

The tool is called hate. It is a project management/ticket tracker, and yes, that is the name on purpose. hate …

Why Your IVR Is Broken Before It's Built: The Design Document Problem

Part 1 of 2. The Symptoms Everyone Recognizes Anyone who has shipped an IVR knows the pattern. Requirements go …

Measuring AI Productivity Gains in Software Development

Introduction AI has arrived, and it is everywhere. It writes code, drafts documents, summarizes meetings, …

Fixing the Broken IVR: The Dispatch Pattern

Part 2 of the IVR design series. Read Part 1: Why Your IVR Is Broken Before It’s Built. Separating the …

The Interface Is the Bottleneck

We spent billions making software easier for humans to use. Agents don’t need any of it, and the …

The 2026 Rollout of Circling Dragons Apiary

Last winter was brutal. We started with four hives at Circling Dragons, three of them very strong and …

Weekend with Sifu Kelly

Sifu Kelly and I had a great weekend getting some solid work in: tai chi, planning stick seminars, and more. …

Way of the Stick

Foundations of Filipino Stick Fighting Taught by Sifu Martin Kelly, with assistant Chuck Emary Seminar …

Tai Chi Seminar

Taught by Sifu Martin Kelly, with assistant Chuck Emary Seminar Overview A four-hour seminar covering Tai Chi …

The Straw Was Never the Problem

Let me tell you what my environmentalism actually looks like, because it matters for what comes next. My …

A Morning at the Database

This article is part of the Micro AI series. This morning I ran a database test. 54 files generated. By hand, …

Goldilocks and the Three AI Yahoos

This article is part of the Micro AI series. Goldilocks and the Three AI Yahoos Loosely based on real events …

Time Tracking with a Claude Skill

This article is part of the Micro AI series. This week’s article is a simple one. It’s about a …

Dear Company I've Never Heard Of: Thanks for Losing My Social Security Number

A letter arrived a couple weeks ago. Professional letterhead, formal language, deeply apologetic tone. A …

Building and Using a Git-Based Ticket System

This article is Part Four in a series exploring better approaches to project management and development …

Closing the Loop on AI-Driven Development

This is part three in a series. Part one was my opinion on why project management is broken — not so much the …

Reimagining Project Management, Part 2: Building the Tool We Actually Need

In Part 1 of this series , I made the case that project management is broken — not the people, but the …

PM Agent: Rethinking Project Management from the Ground Up

The Problem Traditional project management tooling is broken in a specific, predictable way. A senior …