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Roberto Rodes

Opportunity Blindness.

Roberto Rodes
October 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
1 min read

Blindfolded doll.

As entrepreneurs, or simply as human beings, our goals often make us blind to unique opportunities that show up in our way. In this …

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How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum.

Roberto Rodes
October 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
1 min read

Scrum meeting.

Do companies actually use Scrum? In this piece, Gergely Orosz, an ex-tech leader at companies like Uber, Microsoft, or Skyscanner, offers …

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How to Engineer Your SaaS Architecture as a Beginner Founder to Move Fast Today (Without Paying the Price in the Future).

Roberto Rodes
October 7, 2022 Leave a Comment
3 min read

Toddler standing in front of a long, steep stair.

"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 …

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Expedition Signals – Episode 3

On Shaping Monolithic Apps, Prototyping New Products, Writing, Hiring, Achieving (And Preserving) Freedom, and Other Crazy Stuff.

Roberto Rodes
January 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
8 min read

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 …

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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.

Roberto Rodes
January 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
5 min read

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 …

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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.

Roberto Rodes
January 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
5 min read

When creating a new product, we usually do research, write specs, draw sketches and diagrams, and a long etcetera of activities for finding …

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Prescriptive Solutions Sell (And Break) More Easily.

Roberto Rodes
January 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
1 min read

The more prescriptive a solution, the easier it is to sell. Thinking is exhausting, so simpler, pre-cooked solutions are usually easier …

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On Liberty, Constraint, and Coercion.

Roberto Rodes
January 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
1 min read

If we must coerce our sisters and brothers, it should be done with the utmost respect and reservation. Anything less is an insult to …

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Magic Sidebar.

Roberto Rodes
January 11, 2022 Leave a Comment
1 min read

Here is a brand new tool I’ve been trying out lately. Built by Tony Dinh, it radically dopes your Twitter experience. Especially powerful …

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