A historical collection of our writing.
I already hinted at this topic in my last Tech Tuesday, when I wrote about having a healthy mix of young and more experienced engineers. More generally, diversity in engineering teams (and teams more generally) tends to be a healthy thing. Diversity helps prevent group think and provides for a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We live Chelsea, which is a mostly residential neighborhood in Manhattan and theoretically one of the world’s leading cities. Yet I have a choice of exactly one true broadband provider: Time Warner Cable. Verizon at my address offers DSL only, not FIOS. My Time Warner speeds are download at about […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have written before on Tech Tuesday on how to grow engineering teams but wanted to tackle this issue again from a slightly different perspective: what is the role of experience? Startup engineering teams often start out skewing very young as young founders tend to hire more young people. The […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Short post because I am away with the family, but I can’t help myself given the shutdowns of Lavabit and Silent Mail. This is what I mean when I say we are headed for a spy-versus-spy society between citizens and government. The way forward is not for citizens to embrace these crypto services and […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
It’s been a while since I have written a post in my Scylla and Charybdis series. As a quick refresher, the basic premise of the series is that startups are hard because on pretty much anything you can do too much or too little and the path to success thus requires navigating a narrow straight […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have written about prioritization previously on Tech Tuesday, introducing a prioritization heuristic and emphasizing the importance of a healthy mix of different projects. Today I want to add some point on how to think about competition in the context of prioritization. This is particularly […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
