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When I decided to write and sell my first ebook, The Tech Resume Inside Out [https://thetechresume.com/], I expected to learn about the writing process. How to create a high-quality publication. How to work with editors. Designing a cover and illustrations for the book. And I have, indeed,
What happens when executives are allowed to secretly sell stock at a company that is doing poorly? And what can founders learn from this incident?
In March 2022, it was reported that the United States was sending over some Switchblades to Ukraine.
Clayton Christensen famously demonstrated the Innovator's Dilemma by using data from the hard drive industry in the 1980s. At every point, companies failed to make the switch from 8-inch drives, to 5-inch drives, to 3...
Some gut-based judgements on the effectiveness of data.
With an iron-clad court ruling, Listerine royalties represent a uniquely enduring cash-flowing asset.
If no one has told you yet, as your career in tech progresses you will eventually become a custodian of culture. If you run a meetup or a team, if you lead an open source project, or if you organize an event people will be looking to you to know what is and isn’t okay in that space. You get this responsibility whether…
July 31 st 2022 has come and gone. Hacker Lab has closed but the community in Sacramento and the need for these kinds of inspiring and supportive makerspaces is still very much alive.
I’ve been trying to run search ads on Google for over a month. Due to two unrelated snags, I’ve only had ~12 hours of uptime with those ads in that time. Based on conversations with other startups that run Google Ads, my experience is neither unique nor surprising. Apropos of Google’s earnings day, I wanted to vent a…
I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins.
25 lessons, 2 years, from 1,000 users to millions
A venture capitalist called Equal Ventures just says it straight-up, we seek to invest in monopolization.
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
Jun 02, 2024 - I dive into best practices, targeting, creatives, landing pages, channels, and examples from the best developer-focused companies.
In the first half of the XXth century, there were relatively few scientists, and these scientists were generally not lavishly funded. Yet it has been convincingly argued that these scientists were massively more productive. We face a major replication crisis where important results in fields such as psychology and…
Mistakes I made working with my first design agency.
👋 Hello everyone. I'm Matt Mecham and today I will be your Rosieland guide. It feels that every other week a new article is written proclaiming the death of the venerable forum platform. The author often cites forums they used to frequent in the early 2000s and how they now hang out on Twitter and Discord, which, in…
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the...
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Construction is something you probably either love or hate, depending on your commute or profession. Obviously, as a civil engineer, it’s something I think a lot about, and over the past 6 years of reading emails and comments fr
A judge has ruled in favour of releasing anonymous user details posted on Glassdoor to billion-dollar NZ toy company, Zuru
I’m leaving my role as the Product Lead for the Go Language at Google. I’m super proud of everything the Go team has accomplished in the last six years, and …
AWS has a lot of haters. Lots of horror cases where people thought they were on the free account but ended up with a $20,000 bill. We are told Azure has a much better model. You have to manually move to a paid service. No surprise bills. Like AWS,
Thanks to @yarbabin for the logo Electronic payment systems have existed on the Internet for a long time, and some bugs in them are twenty years old. We’ve found critical vulnerabilities allowing us…
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
With subscriptions now the norm of the app world, I wanted to take a closer look & see how those little monthly microtransactions added up.
