As entrepreneurs, or simply as human beings, our goals often make us blind to unique opportunities that show up in our way. In this …
How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum.
Do companies actually use Scrum? In this piece, Gergely Orosz, an ex-tech leader at companies like Uber, Microsoft, or Skyscanner, offers …
How to Engineer Your SaaS Architecture as a Beginner Founder to Move Fast Today (Without Paying the Price in the Future).
"What if we cannot easily change the system later? What if it can't scale? What if it goes down? What if...? I've been building software …
Expedition Signals – Episode 3
On Shaping Monolithic Apps, Prototyping New Products, Writing, Hiring, Achieving (And Preserving) Freedom, and Other Crazy Stuff.
Hey friends, Happy New Year! I hope you had a nice holiday break. Here we are back again, beginning a new exciting year with a …
Sustainability Is Your Unfair Advantage for Hiring.
Why Growing Fast and Big Won’t Help You Hire the Right People and Will Poison Your Business.
A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a reply by Justin Jackson to this other tweet by Ben Tossell. I've been in that situation multiple …
Prototype Before Building the Real Thing.
How I Used Prototyping to De-risk a New Product and Why That Might Be a Clever Idea for You as Well.
When creating a new product, we usually do research, write specs, draw sketches and diagrams, and a long etcetera of activities for finding …
Prescriptive Solutions Sell (And Break) More Easily.
The more prescriptive a solution, the easier it is to sell. Thinking is exhausting, so simpler, pre-cooked solutions are usually easier …
On Liberty, Constraint, and Coercion.
If we must coerce our sisters and brothers, it should be done with the utmost respect and reservation. Anything less is an insult to …
Magic Sidebar.
Here is a brand new tool I’ve been trying out lately. Built by Tony Dinh, it radically dopes your Twitter experience. Especially powerful …