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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords
How cold calling succeeded where AdWords failed, producing a 100% conversion rate and all the information needed to create a scalable business.
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How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale. And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a…
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Getting More Strategic
Strategy – how to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic – is one of my ongoing obsessions. Years ago, I read Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, and it’s guided my thinking ever s…
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“Working Too Hard And Not Getting Anywhere”
Continuing the case method on MBA Mondays, I am going to tell a story about a business model pivot that was not a full business pivot. In the lull between Flatiron and Union Square Ventures, I made a few angel investments and the best one was in a company called TACODA that went on to […]
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Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
So, my latest post went viral. And with virality, you get a ton of comments that you must reply to. I don't want to reply in HN/Reddit/Whatever to prev...
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California updates laws around salary and criminal histories of job applicants
California has updated its labor laws around the salary and criminal histories of job applicants. Find out how to stay compliant.
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How boring should your team's codebases be
Thoughts on how to keep the novelty in a team at the correct level for easy onboarding
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A development process to ship features fast
Here are 9 specific steps founders can use to ship features faster, keep their product team aligned and build what their users really want.
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Deadlines are pointless – what to do instead
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Stanford CS enrollment increase "downright scary"
Eric Roberts just sent out a note of concern to the ACM Education Council, and he kindly allowed me to share it here as a guest post. When I read his note, I thought about my May 2009 CACM column …
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Advice for ambitious 19 year olds
“I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?” I get asked this question fairly often, and I now have a lot of data on what works, so I thought I’d share my response. Usually, people are...
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Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual
One of our favorite anecdotes that illustrates just how hard it is to get people to read the docs comes from an unexpected source: Van Halen. The...
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Sell it or run it, there is no middle ground
In the how to sell your company article I wrote at length on the process of how to go about selling your company once you’re ready for that. Which makes it seem as if there is no choice, either you sell your company, or you don’t. Simple as that.
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You and Your Research (1986)
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986
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The carefulness knob
A play in one act Dramatis personae EM, an engineering manager TL, the tech lead for the team X, an engineering manager from a different team Scene 1: A meeting room in an office. The walls are ado…
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If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion
I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets:
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PyCon US 2024 Recap
Unlocking the Parallel Universe: Subinterpreters and Free-Threading in Python 3.13
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What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’?
Ben Treynor Sloss interview with Niall Murphy, discusses about sre & sre roles and responsibilities; highlights how SRE differs from traditional operations.
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The Human Side of Elixir
In this blog post, we take a look at the Elixir programming language from the engineer/business perspective.
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The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
How are developers supposed to manage and coordinate fast-moving, heterogeneous systems including maintenance & operations — and free themselves to build?
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How to identify an immoral maze
Previously in sequence: Moloch Hasn’t Won, Perfect Competition, Imperfect Competition, Does Big Business Hate Your Family?, What is Life in an Immoral Maze?, Stripping Away the Protections, What is…