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I created The low-tech guys, a brand under which I develop macOS apps for a living. I started this business with a good friend of mine, thinking I could help him stop working long hours at his consulting job and ease into more creative work. However, getting to a state where you earn enough to live off the app sales…
It works! I am now a full-time independent open-source maintainer. I'm announcing my first cohort of six clients, and sharing some details of how the model works.
Read a message from Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, to the employees of Zoom.
We've helped hundreds of people negotiate an average of $50k more. These are the two mistakes we can't undo.
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust.
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
As a relatively new member of adult society, and an absolute infant of the business world, I didn't think much about bank choice. I figured: you put money in, you take money out, they're all the same. I also figured a local branch of a global bank is just a fungible tentacle of the giant banking machine, so also…
As I shared at our last family meeting, current economic conditions have forced family leadership to make many difficult decisions. I myself have reduced my golf outings to every other week, and you, undoubtedly, noticed that your mother’s car is no longer the current model year. Unfortunately, even these deep cuts…
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn it?
Learn about the eleven lessons, from two decades, shared by site reliability engineers at Google, essential SRE lessons and core principles of SRE.
I'm often asked if I plan to hire more people and grow my own design agency? I don't, and in this article I explain why.
Choosing the right markets and the pitfalls to avoid
Interruptions and context switching are the two most costly factors that directly impact a programmer's daily productivity. Although there is no permanent way to avoid them, there are some interesting strategies to minimize their impact. The Cost of an Interruption Based on various scientific studies, it takes at…
Learning about roles you work with can provide a meaningful competitive advantage in the modern tech world
Last week, I had a fascinating conversation with a reader around frustration and unhappiness at work. Much of it was totally obvious to both of us, but it occurred to me that this probably isn't to everyone, which is why almost all of my colleagues (in very cushy, non-stressful jobs) nonetheless need therapy. And if…
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more.
A practical guide to a good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
A group of prominent scientists spread misinformation about COVID's origins. Mainstream journalists missed the story.
An Essential Piece to Your Life Resume
In the first 45-minutes the market was open the faulty software deployment sent millions of child orders into the market resulting in 4 million transactions against 154 stocks for more than 397 mil…
A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.
Companies are fighting back for quiet quitting and it's having a big impact.
...but the other 10% are worth 1000x
