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I have recently received a job offer to work on a blockchain implementation. While the offer was very generous, I had to turn it down. In this post I want to collect the thoughts that went into my decision process leading to this conclusion.
We talk a lot about working remotely. Over 70% of our employees work remotely. They work out of homes, coffee shops, and co-working spaces. They play music, garden, and spend time with their families. We dig working remotely so much we wrote a book about it. Meet some of the fantastic pe…
on proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate
A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!
Working from home gives you the freedom to get a lot done, away from the distractions of office life. On the other hand, it also gives the freedom to goof off all day!
How quarterly fixit weeks help teams tackle small annoyances that never bubble up to the priority list.
In January 2020 I closed a $5.1M seed round, my first financing for my first company. I’ve closed another ~$6M since then. This is how I raised that first round.
Oscar's thoughts too large for a tweet
Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.
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Haiku, Inc. is proud to announce that we have hired existing contributor waddlesplash to work on general Haiku improvement full-time. The contract was signed on Monday, August 23, 2021 and waddlesplash plans to start work tomorrow. In the past Haiku, …
Absent a time machine, telling others how to avoid my mistakes is the best I can do.
I have the good fortune to have a job right now, but many of my friends are out of work. Most have been searching for a while. Some are encountering a problem that has my full sympathy, something I’ve experienced myself at various times. I’m not sure I can solve it, but maybe I can help put words to what some are…
The software industry loves young people, but old-timers serve an important purpose, too.
Every job makes a strong first impression within days. At great jobs, the anxiety is "I hope I can measure up to these amazing people." At bad jobs, it's "oh god I hope this isn't what every day will be like."
Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same time? Deming — who came up with these data techniques — believe that it is possible. I'm not so sure.
Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy.
Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists?
Dalton & Michael: The stories are true: technical founders (and early technical employees!) often end up with the short end of the stick when starting a company. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we'll discuss how to keep that from happening to you.
Aftershock II is believed to be the world’s first civilian-built rocket to reach an altitude of 470,000 feet.
You’ve likely read lots of blog posts stating that it takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to work after an interruption, context switch, or meeting. Thus, “do you have five minutes” ends up not only costing those few minutes, but instead about half an hour. But where does that number come from?
Dave Farley and Allen Holub are two people that I respect hugely when it comes to Software Development. I’ve been following them on twitter for quite a while, and am always taken in about their takes on driving continuous delivery and “lowercase agile” forward. So when both came together for Dave’s Engineering Room…
